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

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1 After NASA , Briggs ' life takes on a mysterious tone , since he subsequently left NASA for Delphin Systems , a computer firm in San Jose and then on to Santa Clara .
2 Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related .
3 In any semiconductor electrons move freely through a crystalline lattice and because the conduction electrons are shared by all the atoms the lattice takes on a tube-like character for easy passage of electrons .
4 And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally .
5 The small , elite , central control agencies such as the Cabinet Office or Treasury takes on a new significance in the context of this kind of analysis ( Dunleavy 1986 ) .
6 Visitors look around and find themselves at a party , surrounded by chatting people , but their journey takes on a new twist as they glass is tipped , a face looms over the rim and they are poured into the drinkers throat .
7 The Evening Star sponsored Star of Anglia takes on a new format this year .
8 The problem arises when a batch of recruits enter military service or when a large company takes on a new set of graduates .
9 Tennis legend Maria Esther Bueno takes on a new challenge as Chairman of Tennis Interlink Limited , a new venture launched to create a unique , membership base , international network for tennis-related information and services .
10 Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come .
11 June 's event takes on a new prize category , a team award .
12 While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene .
13 Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park .
14 ‘ How green was my valley ’ takes on a new meaning when you see it .
15 Safety at sea takes on a new meaning when you sail with Navico .
16 ‘ In sickness and in health ’ takes on a new meaning .
17 Once that level of proficiency has been achieved , the kata takes on a new meaning .
18 FIESTA takes on a new meaning at Sekers as those with Spanish holidays on their minds adjust to making fabrics for the car instead .
19 WORK shadowing , a technique usually used for pupils to follow managers around their daily tasks , takes on a new aspect at Swindon , where teachers shadow apprentices on the press lines , and Rover management teaches in local schools .
20 But the question of the hierarchy between the two discourses involved in the metaphoric relation takes on a new light in Such .
21 ROS takes on a shifty look . )
22 The sexual life of the young exhausted mother of a fractious baby takes on a dream-like quality .
23 Travel takes on a multiple significance as geographical discovery , facetious mythical enactment ( its resemblance to Alger 's stories is mocked ) , sexual fulfilment , and above all textual sequence .
24 For this reason , adultery should be seen for what it has become , an act of sexual conduct which takes on a symbolic character if offensive to the other partner .
25 But Meadowell 's air suggests a place where the rhetoric of ‘ permanent recession ’ takes on a chilling substance .
26 Letitia takes on a challenging role
27 Stripped to its essence , this model takes on a mechanical quality which surely robs the process of much of its evocative appeal .
28 But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner .
29 Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings .
30 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 .
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