Example sentences of "and take on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this variation on a very traditional recipe , the fish is marinaded in lime juice and takes on a white , cooked appearance . |
| 2 | In the other half of the picture the shoulder-line tilts towards us … and the face retreats and takes on a mask-like , wall-like quality ’ , wrote John Russell . |
| 3 | And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally . |
| 4 | Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place . |
| 5 | He befriends a battered child , stays faithful to Tess Truchart despite the show stealing advances of Madonna 's Breathless Mahoney and takes on an all-star super cast of grotesques that include Al Pacino and Dustin ‘ Mumbles ’ Hoffman . |
| 6 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 7 | Her breasts became tender , she endured a faint queasiness in the mornings but no actual sickness and finally , her figure began to thicken and take on a matronly look . |
| 8 | It is the private world of the student 's mind that is at issue , a world that should expand and take on a rich array of colours , within the course of studies . |
| 9 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 10 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 11 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 12 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 13 | Behind the trees the late afternoon sky was growing pale towards the horizon and taking on a pellucid apricot tint . |
| 14 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 15 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 16 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |
| 17 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 18 | Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 . |
| 19 | My separatist friends said I was selling out , and taking on the role of mother was just doing what the patriarchy had trained me for . |
| 20 | As a result , he necessarily developed a new self-image , and took on a new social personality in the process . |
| 21 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 22 | Twenty-five years ago , the line built by George Stephenson in 1836 was saved from closure and took on a new lease of life as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway . |
| 23 | It changed as the Dornier accelerated away from them , and took on a rhythmic throbbing as it left the ground . |
| 24 | He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country . |
| 25 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 26 | Carefully planning the cheapest air fares , allocating her meagre budget as sparingly as possible on food and accommodation , she travelled the world and took on the best . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 29 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 30 | In the end , Naughtie pulled rank , and took on the task himself . |