1.   And while it will be months before House legislation takes shape, the basic idea has support from Democrats as well as Republicans.

2.   Aside from an airline bailout, it could be weeks before any overall economic package takes shape.

3.   But shift this apparently arbitrary assemblage of words and images ever so slightly and another figure takes shape.

4.   But, the recent history of L.A. County budgets indicates there is a long way to go before the final budget takes shape.

5.   Now, as the walls go up, I love to stop by late in the afternoon and just wander around, watching something designed on paper take shape.

6.   That worries Paul Samuelson, the Nobel laureate in economics who, as a young man, witnessed the communal approach take shape in the Depression years.

7.   The fall season is barely under way, and already some attention is beginning to drift toward spring as a number of productions take shape.

8.   Watching these intricate sculptures take shape is fascinating, but the real joy comes is viewing the completed works at night when they are lit by warm colored light.

9.   Who knows how ideas leap from the pages of a book, disembodied like ghosts, and take shape in other minds?

10.   You work on an automotive design project, take pride as a new vehicle takes shape on your watch and then run the gantlet of corporate review.