Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [art] [adj] significance " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Given the challenge to this claim by those who label the country ‘ totalitarian ’ , the state of the prisons takes on a special significance . |
| 4 | Under water , the world of sound signalling takes on an additional significance since sound in water travels much further than light , moving a great deal faster than it does in air . |
| 5 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |