Example sentences of "a [noun] to take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a shell to take a closer look . |
| 2 | This did not originally have the plunging action of today 's routers , and was really only a fixed motor with a collet to take a limited number of cutters . |
| 3 | Persuading a child to take a long course of medicine is usually a struggle , as children often dislike the taste . |
| 4 | At the same time , if by a failure to take a decisive stand Kirkton should be defeated , it would be easy to describe that as a defeat for the Montrose interest to which Kirkton had long been attached . |
| 5 | There is a need to take a proactive stance to develop social work with elderly people and their families , as the welfare state contracts , and a mixed economy of welfare emerges . |
| 6 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 7 | It 's an organisation I have always recognised provides a facility to commerce and industry which I think is highly desirable — that is a facility to take a long-term view . |
| 8 | Some MA(Honours) degrees require a student to take a secondary subject for two years , and virtually all of them require one or two ‘ outside ’ subjects , in addition to the main field of study . |
| 9 | Unlike some of his neighbours , President Mugabe is in a position to take a relaxed attitude to dissent . |
| 10 | The third section , ‘ Switch ’ , has a socket to take a double footswitch for turning the internal or any external effects on and off , and there are two more of those push-push buttons , this time for assigning effects to channel 1 and channel 2 . |
| 11 | First , s/he must do so if the pupil is to be excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term , or if the pupil 's exclusion will mean that s/he misses an opportunity to take a public examination which s/he was going to take . |
| 12 | If the pupil has not been excluded permanently , but his been excluded for an indefinite period , the governors can only order the head teacher to reinstate him/her if the aggregate period of exclusion would be more than five days in any term or if the pupil would miss an opportunity to take a public examination . |
| 13 | The opportunity this gives an incumbent to take a broad view is useful if he or she has the resources to know what is going on . |
| 14 | These deals usually start when a banker persuades an investor to take a certain punt , a gamble on the oil market , for example . |
| 15 | ‘ I am very disappointed that they wrote when the committee had made an agreement to take a non-confrontational approach with the health authority , ’ said Coun Scott . |
| 16 | ASCII has a 5% stake in Informix , with an option to take a further 10% . |