Example sentences of "[adv] take on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the forecasts are believed , they will affect the actions of agents and so take on the role of expectations . |
| 2 | Every so often , rational pursuits need to be ‘ seen through ’ ; and their practices and concepts , which all too easily take on the form of rituals , need to be demystified . |
| 3 | DOUBLE TAKE ON THE TERRACES |
| 4 | It is thus that ‘ national liberation ’ , or the breakaway movements , so often take on the colour and rhetoric of the group they see as dominating them . |
| 5 | Armed forces increasingly take on the role of internal policemen — as they often have in several countries . |
| 6 | Lola gets up to no good with her handsome boyfriend , but it 's a basic boy meets girl story of how the pair defiantly take on the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big . |