Example sentences of "take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not unnaturally one consequence of this reductionism is that action and pragmatism take on an extra dimension in the police mind , holding a special place in the institutional imagination . |
| 2 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 3 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 4 | The executive has a number of committees and policy groups that take on special responsibilities . |
| 5 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 6 | They begin , after all , as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops . |
| 7 | Irwin , the centre whose back injury ruled him out of Ireland 's tour of North America , plays his first game for four months when Instonians take on Malone this weekend . |
| 8 | The plot 's dramatic excesses , which can be comically absurd , take on a brief reality as she dances . |
| 9 | Middlesex , Second Division champions last year , take on Hertfordshire away from home . |
| 10 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 11 | The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable . |
| 12 | Today England , having demolished a Railways XI containing no opposition of any note , take on a team sponsored by Air India , which looks almost as weak . |
| 13 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 14 | When you , as an employer , first take on an employee , you must tell the Inspector of Taxes , who then sets a Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) scheme and sends you an ‘ Employers ' Starter Pack ’ . |
| 15 | In the UK , publishing companies take on very few non-performing songwriters . |
| 16 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 17 | In effect governments take on a commitment to support a part of the costs of several hundred projects at any one time , such ‘ counterpart funding ’ in countries like Kenya or Tanzania frequently amounts to a nominal commitment of about $200 million per year . |
| 18 | There was a great take on it . |
| 19 | Bearing all these factors in mind , the demonstration that patients in intensive care show abnormal daily rhythms , and that these abnormalities take on many forms , is not surprising . |
| 20 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 21 | ‘ As Emporio spreads and grows , I will concentrate more on doing a few limited pieces for the special clients who buy my signature line , ’ he smiles , betraying a special fondness for those who grudge no expense for a new take on a shoulder-line , a fresh twist to this year 's lapel that simply can not be copied in a less fluid fabric at a lower price . |
| 22 | Hedgerows take on an additional dimension on foggy days ; when the distant landscape is blotted out immediate surroundings assume a new prominence . |
| 23 | Gullit is one of several long-term casualties missing from the Milan side as they take on Barcelona in the Nou Camp stadium in the first leg of the European Super Cup tonight . |
| 24 | On Saturday Basingstoke don the armour of St Michael as they take on Torquay at home in the second round of the FA Cup . |
| 25 | On Saturday Basingstoke don the armour of St Michael as they take on Torquay at home in the second round of the FA Cup . |
| 26 | The agency companies will also be responsible for ensuring that syndicates are capable of handling the business they take on . |
| 27 | Lawyers already informally take on certain winners on this basis , and the reward proposed — a small uplift on normal fees — will not induce them to accept chancy cases . |
| 28 | The agency companies will also be responsible for ensuring that syndicates are capable of handling the business they take on . |
| 29 | When Welling , who today take on Reading in the FA Cup second round , beat Gillingham at Priestfield in the last round , there was some confusion over the price of entry for juniors . |
| 30 | Again the fab four take on audience suggestions for a totally impromptu couple of hours . |