Example sentences of "took [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inexplicable , unprecedented and catastrophic , Waldsterben took on the character of an apocalyptic plague . |
| 2 | This time , something like a Christian front emerged , albeit temporarily , and the campaign took on the character of a crusade , the so-called Crusade of Varna , under the blessing of Pope Eugenius IV . |
| 3 | Sweat poured through the starched severity of my wig and the small studio took on the character of a Comedy Store try-out for a middle-aged alternative comic . |
| 4 | Zena , a sculptress , took on the responsibility of caring for her Down 's Syndrome grand-daughter when the mother ‘ upped and offed ’ . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 6 | They were regarded as betrothed , but while Judith regularly took on the air of proprietorship , Andrew never seemed to be much interested . |
| 7 | Last summer , the place took on the air of a cheap seance , with ringing bells and flickering lights . |
| 8 | By this time his fantasies took on the air of medieval barons ' wars . |
| 9 | The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry . |
| 10 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 11 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 12 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 13 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 14 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
| 15 | With an unusual daring for a Tiller she took on the life of a Broadway dancer , the men flocked to her and she basked in their admiration . |
| 16 | Kerekou remained President and Head of the Armed Forces , but the new government was headed by Prime Minister Nicéphore Soglo , who also took on the portfolio of Minister of Defence formerly held by Kerekou . |
| 17 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 18 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 19 | The gradual encroachment of the state in the succeeding centuries took on the dimensions of a tidal wave in the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Though most of his trials are in the southern states , Mr Stafford Smith recently took on the case of Kenneth Richey , the young Scot who faces execution in Ohio . |
| 21 | Lydia thought how the country people sometimes took on the look of the land itself , especially the old : how Angharad seemed more part of the land than of her family . |
| 22 | He therefore took on the chairmanship of Tate $ Lyle on a part-time basis . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While Oman 's Muscat took on the mantle of regional champions , Queensland provided a masterly performance against Bahrain Warblers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was open and I could see inside and the closed loo door took on the semblance of the Berlin Wall . |
| 27 | The story is apocryphal and an instance of the way Minton 's life took on the quality of myth . |
| 28 | During the course of the decade , with or without partners , Noell took on the farming of more revenues , and in 1657–9 he was co-postmaster-general with John Thurloe [ q.v. ] , who may have been a relative by marriage . |
| 29 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 30 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |