Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb base] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 2 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 3 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 4 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 5 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 6 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 7 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 8 | The therapists take on the role of director , facilitator , organizer , reinforcer , and teacher . |
| 9 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 10 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 11 | The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring ( Goldberg , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The girls put on a classy act . |
| 13 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 14 | So the women take on the role of his good friends . |
| 15 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 16 | Initially the edges of the fins take on a greyish or opaque look , which then progress to a level where the fin tissues , often including the bony fin rays , break up and fall away . |
| 17 | The Zombies take on the appearance of people the adventurers know ( and preferably care about or at least like ) and reach forward to them as if in greeting . |