Example sentences of "[noun sg] take [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget .
2 Each instrument takes approximately 140 hours to make .
3 The report comes as the Department of Trade and Industry takes on the tasks of the now defunct Department of Energy .
4 From start to finish pitching takes around nine minutes .
5 A cast on , a few rows with waste yarn , one row with the cord and one row of main yarn are all that needs to be knitted before the garter carriage takes over .
6 The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged .
7 The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section .
8 It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards .
9 Royal Tuscan charity appeal for the air ambulance takes off
10 That means , basically , more silly noises , more stoned babbling , a mind-bogglingly cacophonous live version of ‘ Shhh/Peaceful/Very Sleepy Rivers ’ , some fine alternative takes on ‘ Yerself ’ 's best tracks and a burbling , very funny run through Sly Stone 's ‘ If You Want Me To Stay ’ that is funk interpreted by Martian children drunk on paint stripper .
11 But the nucleus of a pre-malignant cell takes up two to three times more dye than a normal cell , the researchers find .
12 Whicker takes late spin round his world
13 These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting .
14 In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ;
15 Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit .
16 Administration takes up much of the day , especially if there are a lot of patrols .
17 At the ‘ buying ’ stage the department takes on all the roles of the critical customer , including complaining loudly , if the quality is n't sufficiently high .
18 The ErgoClient takes on the characteristics of a personal computer by means of a similar personality module , which incorporates an Intel Corp 80486 processor and simply slots into the machine .
19 In Australia the rally side of the marathon takes over .
20 The bonus takes only ten minutes .
21 This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 .
22 The earlier chapters have disposed of other alleged stumbling blocks , and the next chapter takes up yet another one , the idea that natural selection can only destroy , never construct .
23 The next chapter takes up a particular , rather special case of explosive , runaway evolution , the case that Darwin called sexual selection .
24 It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun .
25 X INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION TAKES OFF
26 DeLorean 's investment takes off
27 But I mean , I think again , it 's a matter of the way in which your mind takes over and says , it is not important how I dress and even if I 'm in an army uniform , it does n't matter .
28 He feels something ; is inspired by it ; his mind takes off ; his periods flow — and afterwards he has difficulty in recalling their point of origination , even their exact meaning ( like Browning , see below ) .
29 Extrinsic feedback from the teacher is necessary during skill learning and early practice , until intrinsic feedback takes over .
30 Now this kind of ordering text on a page if you 're using a typewriter takes quite a lot of skill but if you 're a , with a word processor it 's actually quite easy .
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