Example sentences of "[modal v] take [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this circumstance , the ‘ old ’ attitudinal stance must take on a new meaning , if it is to be repeated in the changed context , inasmuch as it will be directed against different counter-attitudes . |
| 2 | Either the applicant must take out a bridging loan for that period — most are not in a position to do so — or the contractor goes without payment . |
| 3 | Today , in the early 1990s there seems to be every possibility their taste for autocracy and power might persuade the police that secrecy should take on a new dimension , so that sedition could acquire new status as a deviance , while even the ‘ espionage ’ of ethnography could well become actionable . |
| 4 | One of the topics for discussion will be whether Boro should take on a paid employee . |
| 5 | Britain therefore likes the French idea that the European Council should take on a larger role at the expense of the commission . |
| 6 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 7 | The Government , he added , should take over the legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds which Robert Maxwell plundered from pension funds instead of leaving professional advisers charging £1m a month to unravel the complexities of the disgraced tycoon 's financial dealings . |
| 8 | However , PEPs do not include life assurance cover and those with dependants should take out a separate policy , at additional cost . |
| 9 | Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood . |
| 10 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 11 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 12 | Or memory might take on a rose-coloured tinge — as with one officer who had commonly thumped prostitutes : |
| 13 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 14 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 15 | Now , V D U and eye tests I 'll take over the main primary agenda . |
| 16 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 17 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 18 | We 'll take up a general collection . |
| 19 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 20 | Mum and Dad are no doubt just wishing he 'd take up an indoor sport instead . |
| 21 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |
| 22 | Perhaps if you do n't want to sell we could take on a joint venture . ’ |
| 23 | Here part-time members could take on a significant role if they were allocated specific monitoring responsibilities and duties , but their current situation and pay militates against that ( Henney , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | Not a happy marriage , and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend . |
| 25 | Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport . |
| 26 | The introduction of the rabbit into Australia offered a classic illustration of how a species could take over a new environment in which there were no natural predators . |
| 27 | Foreign labour was cheaper than Libyan , and it was excluded from the benefits of socialist legislation , in particular from the provision that workers could take over the private businesses for which they worked . |
| 28 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 29 | Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability . |
| 30 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |