Example sentences of "take on an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hedgerows take on an additional dimension on foggy days ; when the distant landscape is blotted out immediate surroundings assume a new prominence . |
| 2 | In that respect , physicians take on an additional burden beyond their immediate remit . |
| 3 | There are dangers for voluntary organisations who take on an increased responsibility for service provision . |
| 4 | Not unnaturally one consequence of this reductionism is that action and pragmatism take on an extra dimension in the police mind , holding a special place in the institutional imagination . |
| 5 | School milk schemes take on an added importance at a time of recession when family budgets are very tight . ’ |
| 6 | They take on an elongated shape and fuse with other muscle cells to give a multinucleate muscle fibre . |
| 7 | Psychological reward is derived from simple adherence to standards and routines which , although originally emanating from the housewife as worker , take on an objective quality . |