Example sentences of "[modal v] take on [art] new [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Finance may take on a new urgency .
5 His long-held belief that spinners could not be trusted had been vindicated , and from now on Test cricket would take on a new dimension .
6 Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ .
7 I can look after her , Dorothea thought , and we will do the garden together , I shall take on a new lease of life .
8 Increasingly the role of initial assessment will take on a new importance and will focus on centres ' guidance structures and procedures .
9 He will take on the new post of Communications Manager , ‘ leading and co-ordinating all aspects of our public relations ’ , according to Sotheby 's Chairman Lord Gowrie .
10 No longer will there be any threat or coldness , for the compassion softens everything and all life can take on a new meaning .
11 This means that an artist can take on a new manager who can — take commission on all new projects , while the former manager continues to earn from all previous albums for a specified time .
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