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He took on the expression of a man who had just bit into a lemon.

Unfortunately both took on the facial expressions of someone having their leg humped by an over-keen puppy, creating the perfect storm in terms of body language poses.

To show that the sign of the numerator in (37) must be negative, simply evaluate the numerator at the point where the income shares in the expression take on the value of one, so that the scale effects are at their maximum value.

"I am pleased that there have been expressions of interest to take on the running of the station.

Because every time his mother came in to the room his face just took on this expression.

She worked up to quavers, breaks, near-sobs and near-screams; her eyes grew wide and wild, and her face took on the expression of a virago.

This mapping has always suggested to me that a particular problem encountered in the field takes on a specific expression because its historical formulation continues to structure its present possibilities.

There are many similarities between best picture candidates and the presidential kind; in fact, like a dog taking on the expressions of its owner, each Oscar movie seems to be manifesting the characteristics of its corresponding political personality.

When they drive away, Jim is haunted by the hungry faces of the children, and he takes on the same expression.

In grappling with what has been lost, several federation members recited to me various takes on the classic expression Scripta manent, verba volant: What is written remains, what is spoken vanishes into air.

We argue how they co-constitute the current governance of science and technology in Europe: earlier styles have not been replaced; each new style of governance has added an extra layer in governance that takes on the dominant expression to (seek to) ensure public trust and confidence.

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