Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the mantle " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 2 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 3 | While Oman 's Muscat took on the mantle of regional champions , Queensland provided a masterly performance against Bahrain Warblers . |
| 4 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 5 | Two years later , the HS. 125–400 executive jet ( known to the SAAF as the Mercurius took over the mantle . |
| 6 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |
| 7 | Bowley , the man who above all others took up the mantle of Booth and Rowntree in the early part of this century , that " it was unfortunately not the custom in Bowley 's day for the British Government to call outside experts . |
| 8 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 9 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 10 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 11 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
| 12 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 13 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 14 | Higher education is notorious for producing disciples , as students take on the mantle of a teacher who has created a great impression . |
| 15 | The author of this missive was Patricia Hewitt , who seemed determined to take on the mantle of Sara Barker , a notorious fixer and manipulator from the Labour Party of the fifties . |
| 16 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 17 | In only the second year of operation , the ‘ jetless ’ Rendcomb Aerial Derby looks firmly set to take over the mantle of the Badminton Air Day , now sadly defunct . |