Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 2 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 3 | Revised interest factor tables used as ready reckoners by tax offices to calculate repayment supplement and interest on overdue tax have been published by the Inland Revenue to take the revised interest rate into account . |
| 4 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |
| 5 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 6 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 7 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 8 | Upon baptism this king took the Christian name of Abraham — perhaps because he hoped to be the father of a long line of kings associated with Frankish power . |
| 9 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 10 | A simple example of this calling takes the following form |
| 11 | In this inclination to take the causal items as prior to their effects , incidentally , we have the support of a good deal of science , indeed a strong scientific tradition , having to do with the principle of retarded action . |
| 12 | Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman ? |
| 13 | This bus takes the stupidest route , it 's |
| 14 | This book takes the practical issues of the day and relates them to students ' training needs . |
| 15 | Gwent has a good record in the Young Farmers ' Clubs Efficiency with Safety contest and a team from this county took the handsome glass trophy again this year . |
| 16 | John Ritblat at British Land takes the same view and backs it with money . |
| 17 | The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ? |
| 18 | Sartre considered that orthodox dialectical materialism takes the easy way out by merely eliminating the first in favour of the second , making man a passive product entirely determined by economic circumstances . |
| 19 | The central core of this tendon takes the highest strain and in a typical speed injury , the inner core breaks first leaving a classic black hole effect in the centre of the tendon , seen on ultrasonic scans of the damaged leg . |
| 20 | To get to them you need to go back to the fork in the road from Tardets where before you turned left , and this time take the right fork , for the village of Larrau and the Col d'Erroymendi ( yet another road into Spain , though one that is open generally for no more than five months in the year — these are snowy parts ) . |
| 21 | In retrospect , it was ironic that a year after Syria was partitioned , another small ethnic group took the opposite path to protect its identity . |
| 22 | In July 1991 AI took the unprecedented step of urging the United Nations ( UN ) to establish an international on-site human rights monitoring operation in Iraq to prevent torture , killings and other abuses by government forces . |
| 23 | The brain and the nervous system take the greatest strain of all and the most intricate functions are progressively damaged . |
| 24 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 25 | To understand the significance of their involvement , however , and the direction in which republican influence took the civil rights movement , it is necessary to examine carefully the political strategy of the republicans in the mid-1960s . |
| 26 | The White Paper takes the same approach : ‘ Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 27 | But there are clusters of miniature wood puffballs on the tree-stumps , and I find that chewing some of the white flesh takes the elder aftertang away . |
| 28 | It was a much younger man taking the same journey in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | The geochronological scale takes the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at 540Myr ago and the Ediacaran faunas as 580–560Myr ago . |
| 30 | After clearing the final fence , the 24-year-old chump took the WRONG turning . |