Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the First Test came the tour selectors , with Stewart naturally taking the dominant role , decided that Mains was suspect because he did not have the speed to cover the hard South African grounds when the ball was loose . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps my legs just take the wrong turning on purpose . |
| 3 | The analysis presented in this chapter largely takes the former course , for as Wright et al , 1981 say , ‘ If minimising public expenditure is the criterion to be used for choosing patterns of care , the public expenditure basis is the one to go for ’ . |
| 4 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 5 | Special schools often take the full age range , including nursery and post-16 . |
| 6 | The reality was that provincial reformers generally took the ideological initiative away from London on this important point . |
| 7 | But the judge usually takes the second course in cases concerning industrial relations . |
| 8 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 9 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 10 | Manuel also took the free kick that led to Gayle 's goal , while Blissett 's 15th goal of the season was a 67th-minute header . |
| 11 | Manuel also took the free kick which led to Brentford 's second in the 18th minute , Gayle sending in a cracker from 18 yards . |
| 12 | Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room . |
| 13 | ‘ My Lords , it seems to me clear that the law plainly took the wrong turning in Sheridan 's case [ 1937 ] 1 K.B . |
| 14 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson yesterday took the unusual step of revealing the exact cause of Sharpe 's problem to try to end months of speculation about the one-time wonder boy . |
| 15 | Cray still takes the simple approach to getting a good sound . |
| 16 | Without delving into the legal niceties too deeply , the procedure of a public inquiry generally takes the following form . |
| 17 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 18 | Marx 's challenge to capitalism therefore took the general form of demonstrating the general forces which govern the history of man , and demonstrating how historical processes produce systems of institutions and ideas os such complexity that their origin can only be discovered with great theoretical effort and by examination of the historical evidence . |
| 19 | Lindsey quickly took the other woman 's hand in hers . |
| 20 | A Rolls Royce then took the happy couple to their reception in Kilmarnock 's Masonic Hall , after which the honeymoon was spent in Blackpool . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors , whatever their political persuasion , to turn out and vote . |
| 22 | ‘ The acceptance of our presence throughout the Caribbean was going to be the most vital thing , because the people here took the anti-apartheid struggle very seriously . |
| 23 | The acceptance of our presence throughout the Caribbean was going to be the most vital thing , because the people here took the anti-apartheid struggle very seriously . |
| 24 | In 1980 the protesters even took the daring step of erecting a scaffolding tower across the path of the train carrying waste barrels on their way to the docks . |
| 25 | But Lord Goodman never took the Labour Whip and was ready to use his remarkable abilities under any government for any cause which aroused his interest , notably the arts . ’ |
| 26 | Vico and Rousseau simply took the biblical imagery one step further back to a pre-Adamite , non-rational , world of peace and innocence . |
| 27 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
| 28 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
| 29 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 30 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |