Example sentences of "[conj] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 2 | ‘ The collector has the power to keep the goods under customs control until the importer either pays the duty or takes the advantage of the section . |
| 3 | But my inability to belay or take the lead soon became obvious . |
| 4 | Apart from the outdoor interest , its also worth visiting St Johann 's own folklore museum , or taking the train to the nearby fortress town of Kufstein . |
| 5 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 6 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 7 | Giant freckles , called chloasma , sometimes appear on the face or neck in sunlight if you are pregnant or taking the combined Pill . |
| 8 | And others on the scientific level who would claim the excuse of a school run , or taking the wife to Surgery . |
| 9 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 10 | or taking the piss — I 've never quite known which . ) |
| 11 | He seemed to take pleasure in the simplest things , like touring the delicatessens in search of a special cheese , or taking the water bus across the lake and just mingling with the tourists . |
| 12 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 13 | when you 're putting your own people into or taking the power away |
| 14 | are you walking or taking the train ? |
| 15 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 16 | You went to Suffolk by the A12 through Chelmsford or took the country route . |
| 17 | It was , therefore , open to misrepresentation and special pleading , to accepting what it was told by the party that secured or took the initiative . |
| 18 | The condition is conveniently expressed by where Taking the square root of both sides of equation ( 9.50 ) , the quadratic equation is obtained which has roots or , since only positive pulsatances have physical meaning Substituting for k from equation ( 9.48 ) , these pulsatances are and imposing condition ( 9.51 ) establishes that the pulsatance range corresponding to is In this range of pulsatance , the attenuation constant is zero , but from equation ( 9.15 ) there is a phase shift per section given by In the range which corresponds to pulsatances satisfying and , where and are the critical pulsatances defined in condition ( 9.52 ) , the phase shift is but there is attenuation characterised by an attenuation constant α where Perhaps surprisingly , condition ( 9.52 ) yields the simple relationship |
| 19 | The regarders , like the verderers , were frequently amerced at Forest Eyres for failure to carry out their duties to the satisfaction of the judges — for failing to appear with the other regarders to make the regard , or to take the regarders ' oath , or to present their rolls of the regard on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or for losing their rolls , or for incompleteness in their returns . |
| 20 | These may be on a window-sill , balcony or patio , and are often more convenient to manage because there is a firm , hard surface to stand on , or to take the wheelchair . |
| 21 | Marigold , his wife , he would not of course have permitted to give womb-room to such a foreign body or to take the pill or consider any so-called reversible tube-tyings . |
| 22 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 23 | The time taken to complete one revolution of the Earth is decreasing over aeons of time but at the moment it is , give or take the odd second , 24 hours ; this defines the solar day . |
| 24 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 25 | The Club had to decide , said Brower , whether to continue as a society of companions on the trail or take the position that ‘ the entire environment is the proper province of conservationists ’ . |
| 26 | Give or take the odd aircraft kit — including a bigger and better model of the Stealth fighter-bomber — there are few new products hitting the market . |
| 27 | The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes . |
| 28 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 29 | If this fails , the carer should leave the room , or take the patient into another room where he will be alone for a time . |
| 30 | Also , deviant behaviour is behaviour that can result in some form of punishment ; and this punishment can be either a formal , legal punishment or take the form of social and moral disapproval . |