Example sentences of "take [adv] a [adj] " 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 | Calcite with 5–8% MgCO 3 takes on a pink to pale red colour , and ‘ high-Mg ’ calcite takes on a deep red colour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 11 | ‘ How green was my valley ’ takes on a new meaning when you see it . |
| 12 | The Evening Star sponsored Star of Anglia takes on a new format this year . |
| 13 | Safety at sea takes on a new meaning when you sail with Navico . |
| 14 | The problem arises when a batch of recruits enter military service or when a large company takes on a new set of graduates . |
| 15 | But the question of the hierarchy between the two discourses involved in the metaphoric relation takes on a new light in Such . |
| 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 | Over half of that can be eliminated by buying British , so marketing can produce considerable improvement and it takes on a new and dramatic urgency . |
| 19 | June 's event takes on a new prize category , a team award . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | FIESTA takes on a new meaning at Sekers as those with Spanish holidays on their minds adjust to making fabrics for the car instead . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ROS takes on a shifty look . ) |
| 24 | The sexual life of the young exhausted mother of a fractious baby takes on a dream-like quality . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But Meadowell 's air suggests a place where the rhetoric of ‘ permanent recession ’ takes on a chilling substance . |
| 28 | Letitia takes on a challenging role |
| 29 | Stripped to its essence , this model takes on a mechanical quality which surely robs the process of much of its evocative appeal . |
| 30 | 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 . |