Example sentences of "[verb] on a different " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 2 | I put on a different one each time I get up . |
| 3 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
| 4 | The real work of acting takes on a different dimension . |
| 5 | The question takes on a different quality , however , when related to regression to what was possibly a former life ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character . |
| 7 | Moreover , the thought of having one 's own flat takes on a different vision when it is situated on a sink council estate . |
| 8 | We may conclude then that ‘ de-industrialization ’ is meaningful as a simple description of a relentless process in which the manufacturing sector suffers declining shares of total employment , inevitably leading to the service sector capturing a greater share , but that the process takes on a different pace and complexion in different countries and places . |
| 9 | This approach means that the task of establishing and maintaining control takes on a different form at the Delphi Centre ; the deliberate employment of ‘ control periods ’ . |
| 10 | But here is where even the everyday eating apple takes on a different meaning according to the context . |
| 11 | In other words the principle of provenance which underlies archival recordkeeping takes on a different form when electronic information is being considered . |
| 12 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 13 | In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three . |
| 14 | Drama time After recapping through still images , the teacher explains that he will now be taking on a different role . |
| 15 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 16 | As the formality of adoption receded into past history , leaving the same accumulation of problems , hope began to wane and problems took on a different perspective . |
| 17 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 18 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 19 | Dressing the doll , after her experience with Effie , took on a different meaning for McAllister . |
| 20 | The panel discussions , which included the voices of aboriginal midwives as well as registered nurses , took on a different meaning in this medical environment . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I wo n't be putting on a different voice or anything like that , ’ he smiles , another fag clamped between his teeth . |
| 22 | Somehow , since being at Vetch Street , working so hard , and living a life so different from her old one , many events in her past had taken on a different colour . |
| 23 | Even though the certificates have taken on a different appearance , their structure remains the same . |
| 24 | There is another picture , taken on a different day , showing , again in about nineteen seventy eight . |
| 25 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 26 | So questions of prior sexual experience take on a different meaning and emphasis over time . |
| 27 | In youth it is relatively easy to create a physical beauty , while the character is still not fully formed ; later on , the search for beauty seems to take on a different aspect , that of expressing the true individual femininity in the most appropriate way . |
| 28 | Child labour was bound to take on a different quality when removed from the home and , in the case of the pauper factory apprentices , from the locality of upbringing . |