Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] take [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example — Panorama on Robert Maxwell was the only piece of journalism to take on the subject — and at considerable risk . |
| 2 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 3 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
| 4 | That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’ |
| 5 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 6 | The transferability and the value of the culture of higher education to society lie not in the acquisition of specific competencies , but in the propensity of graduates to take up a sceptical stance to what they come across ( in truth claims , in concept , in value , in ways of going on ) . |
| 7 | The real work of acting takes on a different dimension . |
| 8 | Or , slightly less galling , Fyfe 's new company Hickson & Welch of Castleford taking over the company completely . |
| 9 | What percentage of pupils take up the offer of extra-curricular activities ? |
| 10 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 11 | A new team of managers took over the semi-state-owned bank on May 13th . |
| 12 | Not quite the sort of punt to take on a picnic . |
| 13 | Then there were truly new beginnings , a hated Poor Law , dead and buried ; a single , uncluttered task — to improve the quality of public care ; and a specially recruited ( and largely newly trained ) new band of professionals to take on the exciting role of pioneers . |
| 14 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 15 | In the distance the cries of rage took on a shrill note of terror . |
| 16 | The fact that Adorno 's thinking on the question is locked into a model which pits individual subject against reified social totality leads his picture of the social meaning of music to take on a monolithic appearance . |
| 17 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 18 | In other words , the New Critical concept of coherence took over the task of unifying meaning which could no longer be attributed to the author . |
| 19 | as the level of average consumption rises , an increasing portion of consumption takes on a social as well as an individual aspect … the satisfaction that individuals derive from goods and services depends in increasing measure not only on their own consumption but on consumption by others as well . |
| 20 | Naturally , no one could move into any of the new flats until the presidential apartments in the palace were fit for the top comrades , so the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism took on a ghostly lifeless quality with its empty layer of flats and its vacant shops on the ground floor . |
| 21 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 22 | First , bodies of thought take on a solidity through being structured around dominant paradigms . |
| 23 | It reached a climax in 1977 when another troupe of actors took over a shop in the main street of Shiraz , hard by the mosque , and performed in the shop and on the pavement a play that involved a full frontal rape and laws acts between naked , consenting actors . |
| 24 | After his appointment in 1631 as Chief Justice of the southern forests , the Earl of Holland took over the direction of the Forest Eyre , and presided at subsequent justice Seats . |
| 25 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 26 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 27 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 28 | She apologises for her simplicity , giving a busy woman 's reason : ‘ T is true I write in shortened measure , Because I scrawl but at my leisure ; For why ? — sublimity of style Takes up a most prodigious while … |
| 29 | The Evening Star sponsored Star of Anglia takes on a new format this year . |
| 30 | Lists inventory of furniture in a Haunted House inventory of equipment to take on a journey/expedition menus for the King 's celebratory banquet or a friend 's birthday party shopping list for ingredients for a cake shopping list for Christmas presents census returns — who lives here , what do they do ? |