Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were climbing quite rapidly and soon Maggie 's eyes took on a very troubled look . |
| 2 | Glancing over the line as it arced over the lake , her eyes took on a faintly emerald glow . |
| 3 | In America , where there was a comparative absence of a long term aristocracy , these social hierarchies took on a particularly strong pecuniary emphasis . |
| 4 | The American film industry took on a more highly integrated personality and its package of entertainment now universally referred to as ‘ Hollywood ’ moved into a position of cultural dominance in America itself and into a position not far short of that in other English-speaking countries . |
| 5 | By the start of the 1990 season membership had increased to twenty and the club took on a more professional approach . |
| 6 | Our relationships take on a completely new dimension as we deepen our relationship with God . |
| 7 | Together the two relationships take on a more dynamic quality and the determinate relationship is mediated by human practice . |
| 8 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 9 | For this reason , the dictatorship of the proletariat took on a typically colonialist aspect . |
| 10 | When the pair of huge horses made their way past the front of the Manor , where the family stood on the steps to watch , the glow of the setting sun was almost gone and in the eerie after-glow the scene took on an almost pagan air . |
| 11 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 14 | Strolling quietly together down the gravel paths of the old-fashioned Elizabethan knot garden , which was her mother 's pride and joy , Laura found the evening taking on a completely different complexion . |
| 15 | Immediately the room took on a more homely , comfortable appearance . |
| 16 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 17 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 19 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 20 | In what could be the most crucial casting decision of his career , Stone settled on Val Kilmer to take on the most sought-after male lead role in recent years . |
| 21 | More stylish , more chic , more exciting than ever before , this spring afro hair takes on a totally new shape ! |
| 22 | Further on , the idea of being a gentleman takes on a very hard and unromantic shape . |
| 23 | If there were space travellers on this planet , and it seemed that there were , their forward flight through the wastes took on a more logical purpose than the pursuance of a prophecy from a discod sleeve . |
| 24 | In their work , the ideological contradictions of the middle-class liberal humanist attitude to the Industrial Revolution take on a specifically sexual character . ’ |
| 25 | It is built along the lines of the most severe late-Seventeenth Century North German instruments , and with its acerbic Kirnberger III tuning , the most innocuous harmonic passages take on a distinctly tangy flavour . |
| 26 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 27 | Relations took on a more positive tone in 1989 when the leader of the City Council returned to the Board , reflecting the reconstituted Labour group 's more pragmatic policy of forming alliances with government and the private sector . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the subject that studied such phenomena took on a strongly normative , prescriptive character . |
| 29 | On Wednesday mornings the Piazza Garibaldi took on a completely different aspect : it was monopolized from an early hour by farmers who came to town to sell their livestock in the Mereato del Bestiame on the outskirts of the city . |
| 30 | TRAINING CENTRE TAKES ON A MORE COMPETITIVE EDGE |