Example sentences of "taking on [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | The place is familiar , becoming home , taking on a tinge of spurious cosiness . |
2 | Slowly , but surely , the machine knitting project is taking on a life of its own . |
3 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
4 | To overcome this problem in the short-term , firms may well find themselves taking on a number of small sites in the general area . |
5 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
6 | When we 're talking about the negligence factor , obviously the insurance does n't cover the negligence of of a repairer , erm any faults inherent at the time of purchase are obviously not our responsibility and I do n't think any reasonable person would expect us to cover that because obviously we 're we 're in insurance , we 're not taking on risks already , we 're taking on a risk of mechanical failure of items after they 're sold , not obviously before they 're sold . |
7 | I mean many people wrote disparagingly about your attempt , your nerve in taking on a gem of the New York stage and turning it into a British directed movie . |
8 | ’ I believe we know of each other , you and I ’ the golden man said , his smile and his voice taking on an edge of mockery . |
9 | Taking on the rest of them . |
10 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
11 | Such was the confidence of the little girl they used to call ‘ Shorty ’ at school that she was now considering taking on the might of the English legal system . |
12 | Jazz FM , Kiss FM and LBC are taking on the might of London station Capital Radio by selling their airtime in one package . |
13 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
14 | Their skin taking on the pallor of death , is the same colour as the linen sheets . |
15 | The affair , dubbed Baftagate by members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is taking on the dimensions of a drama itself . |
16 | The affair , dubbed Baftagate by members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is taking on the dimensions of a drama itself . |
17 | Now a podgy , desperately unfit bar-fly , he simply was n't up to taking on the Man of Action role that he craved . |
18 | Passey and Melosh suggest taking on the basis of their investigations of crater fields . |
19 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |
20 | An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims . |
21 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
22 | Many thanks to them from all our branch members for taking on the job of producing our newsletter which is such a vital link and source of information for the membership . |
23 | By this means the organisation tries to adapt to peaks and troughs in demand without taking on the burden of high fixed labour costs . |
24 | With wrestling , the ‘ opponents ’ are not simply themselves but taking on the parts of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in a ritual that has a context much larger than the particular match . |
25 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
26 | Eleanor was assuming too much in taking on the role of possessive girlfriend . |
27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | If the function is seen as the delivery of a service to carers and hence taking on the role of respite care rather than that of aiming for functional improvement then this could have import for the type of staff , ie specifically trained , ratio of staff and the drawing of expertise from other fields , ie occupational therapists . |
30 | Within a year , Pinchbeck was on his travels again , this time taking on the role of manager Exploitation with the Gulf of Mexico business unit in Houston , planning new deep water developments and reservoir management . |