Example sentences of "[adv] take on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance !
2 Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance !
3 On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role .
4 She sat on the edge of his bedding , leaving her hand where it was , the physical contact suddenly taking on a new meaning .
5 Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air .
6 That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley .
7 Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out .
8 He plans to continue his involvement with Linlithgow Union Canal Society and , added , ‘ I 'm young enough to take on a new challenge . ’
9 One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was .
10 Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners .
11 There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself .
12 It ultimately failed and the shipowners emerged victorious , offering only to take on an extra man on each ship to reduce unemployment .
13 The annual summer event , held in Castle Park , normally takes on a Victorian theme but organisers decided to change it to coincide with July 4 .
14 The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " .
15 Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control .
16 Well the other thing that 's in the back of my mind is I happen to know that Cath is just taking on a new worker
17 Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] .
18 The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape .
19 The Cabriolet was already taking on an adaptable demeanour , but when I hit the distortion channel things became serious ; these humbuckers are capable of some pretty heavy stuff .
20 The compromise nevertheless allowed individual member states to diverge from this target , with the UK retaining its less ambitious aim of reaching the target by 2005 rather than 2000 , and Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain also not taking on a 2000 target for their individual performance .
21 Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food .
22 And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known .
23 The phone startled her when it rang , so engrossed was she , but Rebecca answered it , her voice quickly taking on a distracted note .
24 The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property .
25 Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing .
26 Level Three , on the other hand , is an entirely different kettle of fish as Rambo , strapped into the seat of a stolen tank , single-handedly takes on the entire Soviet Army .
27 People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle .
28 Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog .
29 Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet .
30 For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while .
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