Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV .
3 Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies .
4 Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport .
5 Foreign labour was cheaper than Libyan , and it was excluded from the benefits of socialist legislation , in particular from the provision that workers could take over the private businesses for which they worked .
6 The district attorney system will take over the criminal prosecutions , and the corrupt philosophy of the contingency fee will pervade the whole system .
7 He would then take over the European Components ' planning activity when everything was centralised in Detroit .
8 ( 4 ) With effect from Jan. 1 , 1994 , the federation and the Länder named in Article 1 of this treaty as well as the Trust Agency shall take over the total debts which have accrued to the Special Fund up to Dec. 31 , 1993 , in accordance with Article 27 ( 3 ) ( concerning borrowing and debts ) of the Treaty of May 18 , 1990 , between the FRG and the GDR establishing a Monetary , Economic and Social Union …
9 However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture .
10 The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister .
11 The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises .
12 This I overplayed by spending too much time in the rear of the stalls watching rehearsals , and an assistant would take over the Royal deliveries .
13 It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee .
14 I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons .
15 I shall take up the individual cases that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention and give as detailed an answer on them as possible .
16 My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one .
17 But the day was saved by Everett , who agreed — after pressurizing his boss , Alastair Morton — that Guinness Mahon would take up the remaining shares .
18 A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers .
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