Example sentences of "[noun pl] takes on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 2 | Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , the familiar Renaissance claim that poetry teaches and delights takes on new implications , pleasure among readers is not only how their attention and co-option to the didactic intention is achieved . |
| 4 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 5 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 6 | The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings . |
| 7 | SHERWOOD COMPUTER SERVICES TAKES ON PREMIER SYSTEMS STAFF |
| 8 | Given the challenge to this claim by those who label the country ‘ totalitarian ’ , the state of the prisons takes on a special significance . |