Example sentences of "[adv] take on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 2 | Johnnie is unable to escape the paralyzing atmosphere of the family home and in the end can only take on the identity of his dead father . |
| 3 | But his skill at political in-fighting and his doctrinal tussles with Mensheviks and renegade Bolsheviks only took on the importance they did because they led his party to positions which found a response within the wider revolutionary movement . |
| 4 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 5 | This tiny scrap suddenly took on a personality . |
| 6 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 7 | We have not only taken on the status of the older generation , we are beginning to look and behave that way too . |
| 8 | It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations . |
| 9 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
| 10 | Is there anybody brave enough to take on the post of SAA Executive Secretary ? |
| 11 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 12 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 13 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 14 | If the forecasts are believed , they will affect the actions of agents and so take on the role of expectations . |
| 15 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 16 | The show itself dealt undisguisedly with Lucille Ball 's troubled marriage to Cuban band leader Desi Arnez , the birth of their son , the twin tugs of showbiz and domesticity , and so on ; just as Sean 's Show overtly takes on the hero 's difficulties with women , and his tendency towards depression and paranoia . |
| 17 | Gregory argues that if God did not take on a humanity like ours , then we are not redeemed ; for it was through sharing our humanity that Christ redeemed it . |
| 18 | You should not take on a case if you or your firm has a conflict of interest . |
| 19 | The fashionable discussion of incentives usually overlooks what may be one of the more potent of the disincentives operating on the productivity of the British labour force : the anticipation of domesticity , discouraging young women from seeking training and employers and educational institutions from providing it , even to women who do not take on a family or a traditional role within one . |
| 20 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 21 | Although it welcomed the extension of home ownership , it also recognized the problems of families who could not or would not take on the responsibility of home purchase ( Department of the Environment 1977b ) . |
| 22 | Normal human curiosity flexed under the strain , but would not take on the forces of discipline in open combat . |
| 23 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 24 | This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women . |
| 25 | Well , what people forget is that , if you put employers in a straight-jacket , the people who suffer first , are the employees , which as you appreciate will not take on the future . |
| 26 | Immediately after the election Lafontaine announced that he was returning to his post as Saarland Minister President , and would not take on the SPD party or parliamentary group leadership . |
| 27 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |
| 28 | Since it was the only nationwide law enforcement agency when McKinley got killed in 1901- making three presidential assassinations in forty years — it was the only group that could easily take on the job of bodyguarding future presidents . |
| 29 | Once this broader scope for mainstream American linguistics was established , pragmatics soon took on a life of its own , for the issues raised are interesting and important in their own right . |
| 30 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |