Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was done in 1972 by Black , Jensen and Scholes , 2 who took a random sample of shares quoted on the NYSE and calculated the betas from 60 consecutive monthly returns . |
| 2 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 3 | In Chapters 2 to 10 we take the various constructions in which English adjectives actually appear , and consider the grammatical and interpretative consequences of the intensional patterns which are expressed by those constructions , before returning in the final three chapters to more general issues of syntax . |
| 4 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 5 | On page 35 we take a detailed look at ways of describing to the teacher how to ‘ drive the program ’ and how to use it in the classroom . |
| 6 | In 1969 they took a hard line . |
| 7 | In 1859 he took a leading part in the promotion of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company , becoming chairman in 1865 . |
| 8 | As usual we take the immediate point — Frodo and the others want to get out of the forest — while reading through to a kind of universality : the ‘ shadowed land ’ is life , life 's delusions of despair are the ‘ woods ’ , despair will end in some vision of cosmic order which can only be hinted at in stars or ‘ sun ’ . |
| 9 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 10 | His eyes lingered a dry moment on mine , as if to make sure I took the implicit compliment ; and then , as if to limit it , he turned out the lamp . |
| 11 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 12 | Did you find that so many it took a long time for change to take place |
| 13 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 14 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 15 | What must seem stupid to non-gardeners , or those who take a rational view of the whole business , is that when you prepare the ground for sowing you first dig it over and make it loose , only to tread it firm again . |
| 16 | It would be inequitable to those who take a contrary view to that of the hon. Gentleman if I were to see him exceptionally , in addition to all the other representations that I have received from him , now that the consultation period is over and I am reaching a conclusion on the matter . |
| 17 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |
| 18 | The great majority of those who took an active part in the work of the Association were natives of Lewis , and several of those who did not belong to the island were Gaelic-speakers from similar areas . |
| 19 | The priests had followed one of two paths : those who took the full vows of celibacy and poverty provided the staff at the houses dedicated to training the young priests ; and those who , after their training , became associates and went into the parishes , to all intents and purposes no different from priests trained elsewhere . |
| 20 | In January 1978 he took an elaborate escape route with his family to Britain , as recounted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom , in which Steve Biko 's story was also told . |
| 21 | And to make matters worse I took an instant dislike to the wife . |
| 22 | At first he took an exuberant delight in the books and in embellishing them with fantastic quasi-scientific detail , for , after the slapstick of his first book with its visit to the comic African court of the Jolliginki where the black Prince Bumpo yearns to be white , the tone is increasingly sophisticated and inventive . |
| 23 | Although the company made a net profit of $10.5 million in 1987 it took a hard-line response over the strike : out of the 5000 who went out , 2000 workers were estimated to have been sacked . |
| 24 | The present exhibition differs in that it takes a thematic approach , organising the material around six key subjects which are further examined in a series of essays in the accompanying catalogue . |
| 25 | On May 21 the EPRDF took Adis Alem , 55 km west of the capital , while on May 23 they took the key town of Debre Birhan ( about 70 km north-east of the capital ) . |
| 26 | In 792 he took a new wife , Aelfflaed ( ASC D , s.a. 792 ) , daughter of Offa , king of the Mercians , marrying her at Catterick where his own parents had been married . |
| 27 | In 1990 it took a major step forward with The Guinness Encyclopedia — a family reference book for the nineties . |
| 28 | In 1846–7 he took a leading part in the foundation of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , and in 1848 he was elected a member of council . |
| 29 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
| 30 | Together with Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] ( often his partner in these years ) , he led an expedition to the north in 1315 ; in 1316 he took a major role in the suppression of the Welsh rising of Llywelyn ab Rhys ( Llewelyn Bren ) [ q.v. ] and of the revolt at Bristol ; and in the same year he was among the committee of bishops and magnates appointed to reform the royal household . |