Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aussie half-back star Greg Mackey switches to No 7 with Kiwi Test star Kelly Shelford taking the stand-off role . |
| 2 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 3 | And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action . |
| 4 | Kiwi manager Ian Taylor took the unprecedented step of telling the world what had happened because he wanted the ICC to investigate Pakistan . |
| 5 | Descent : Either walk left across the top of the quarry f aces to take the descending incline of the approach or find an in situ abseil bolt roughly in the centre of the wall . |
| 6 | The six Hong Kong members of the BLDC subcommittee took the unprecedented step of publicly announcing their disapproval of the subcommittee 's proposals . |
| 7 | R.S. designed its relocation package to take the financial considerations out of moving so that the staff could make their work/career decisions without worrying about the costs of relocation . |
| 8 | There was no one about except Miss Lofthouse taking the dead heads off the daffodils in the churchyard by the War Memorial . |
| 9 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 10 | ‘ Mail order took the established manufacturers by surprise , ’ said John Whitely , of IT consultants Romtec . |
| 11 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 12 | Circuit engineers take the mutual inductance invariably positive and denote the direction of the induced voltage by a dot in the circuit diagram . |
| 13 | The diagram shows the second transfer tool taking the three stitches from right to the three empty needles at the left . |
| 14 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 15 | The triumph of Fidel Castro 's 26 July Movement took the Soviet Union completely by surprise . |
| 16 | In all known surviving lists of such subscriptions in the 1750s and 1760s ( 1757 , 1759 , 1767 ) , the Van Neck firm took the largest share . |
| 17 | Alan Bates took the leading role . |
| 18 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 19 | Another RBAI player Ross McMillan takes the fourth cadet boy place to join Dominic McGreevy , Robert Robinson and Robert Fisher , but Ulster hopes will rest on the three girls sides for Gold medals with Leinster and Munster favourite to win the boys categories . |
| 20 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 21 | Animal lover Ray Mackinlay took the cuddly pet in after he was discovered in the town 's Geneva Road area . |
| 22 | And it was only on the final day of their trip to London that the Hit Men took the tiny teenager into the recording studio . |
| 23 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 24 | After these , Dr Rogers took the assembled company completely by surprise by peeling off his false beard and revealing himself as Alan Abel , hoaxer extraordinary . |
| 25 | The experience curve takes the following form : where y is the average cost calculated over the company 's cumulative volume produced to date , x is the cumulative volume produced to date , a is the cost of the first unit produced , and b reflects the rate of learning . |
| 26 | Of fungi , spores , hyphae and spore bodies are eaten by a wide range of invertebrates and fleshy spore bodies soon become infested with maggots ; snails rasp them ; beetles lay their eggs in them ; carrion-and dung flies take the foul-smelling slime of phalloids , while tortoises , rats , pigs , deer , macaques and probably other large mammals , in the Malay Peninsula at least , also eat them . |
| 27 | In the year of the 25th Olympiad and the 90th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Olympic Gold Medallist Eric Liddell , athletics coach Margot Wells , whose husband Allan took the Olympic 100m gold in Moscow , looks at life in the fast lane , in 1924,1980 and now . |
| 28 | Unless Sir Robert Armstrong takes the unprecedented step of issuing a statement , this will have to remain one of what he has called ‘ the marvels and mysteries of Cabinet government ’ . |
| 29 | Alaw Bennett Humphreys and her husband , Gareth , and Huw Alun Roberts take the leading roles in a Welsh adaptation of a Ray Cooney play , Allan o Drefn ( Out of Order ) . |
| 30 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |