Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 2 | Each contestant took a fixed number of dross leads from a box . |
| 3 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 4 | A 24-year-old man was taken by one ambulance crew to Wrexham Maelor Hospital with cuts to the head , back and chest injuries , while another ambulance took a semi-conscious man from Holywell to Glan Clwyd hospital at Bodelwyddan . |
| 5 | This programme takes a scientific approach to the story by looking at the advancements in science , like the discovery of electricity , that inspired her to pen it . |
| 6 | This setting takes a simple theme of pressed and cut glass and white linen — and then embellishes it with flowers , fruit and candles . |
| 7 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 8 | For a tax to be regarded as progressive , its rate structure must be such that the tax takes a rising proportion of total income as income increases ; a proportional tax takes a constant proportion , whilst a regressive tax takes a declining proportion . |
| 9 | This investigation takes a single case of such innovation and subjects it to intensive study . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 11 | In the light of the serious situation which has arisen in relation to the Maxwell case , will my right hon. Friend take a good look at the pension funds of ABG Research , which is about to be wound up ? |
| 12 | This procedure takes a new snapshot and does pixel counts for various subareas such as a narrow strips at the edge of the region of the reference area which is supposed to contain the reference card . |
| 13 | As ever , the hon. Gentleman takes a great interest in hon. Members this side of the House , but I suppose that from his point of view it is a receding problem . |
| 14 | I think it would be appropriate to very briefly sir preface erm not by name obviously , who I represent , the interests I represent , because otherwise my comments may be misconstrued erm by certain parties who know me well , I represent certain peripheral land owner and developer interests around York , I also represent a developer who is proposing a n new village circa fifteen hundred dwellings in the Leeds metropolitan district er to the East of Wetherby , that is relevant when I come to the location and a migration aspects , er I would preface the rest of my comments by saying I consider it is vitally important , sir , that this enquiry takes a sub-regional view , this is why my colleague from Leeds City Council I 'm sure 's been invited , it 's why the Department of the Environment Regional Office are here , very important indeed . |
| 15 | In Tracey Ullman : A Class Act ( Jan 9 ) the British comic takes a wry look at the class system in the first of three 45-minute specials . |
| 16 | This project takes a general estimation procedure know as Residual Maximum Likelihood ( REML ) and implements it on the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre 's ( EPCC ) Connection Machine . |
| 17 | In 1989 it was the first British company to take a significant stake in the French commercial radio network . |
| 18 | In 1989 it was the first British company to take a significant stake in French commercial radio . |
| 19 | Granted this system takes a little planning . |
| 20 | The German market took a mini dive of 12-points but the Paris Bourse was fairly firm . |
| 21 | This packet takes a certain amount of restraint , because it , it holds a lot of different things in it . |
| 22 | Neither girl took a great deal of interest in me . |
| 23 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 24 | Does the daughter who wants to go to a party where there will be unlimited alcohol have the confidence , sense and moral courage to take a different line , if necessary , from her friends ? |
| 25 | The Island 's strange evocative name takes a little explaining . |
| 26 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 27 | Hurriedly she glanced round , assessing her chances of getting away if she made a run for it , then started nervously when the second man took a deliberate step sideways to effectively block her path . |
| 28 | Across the Atlantic , where only a tiny minority took a serious interest in global politics , there was little obvious response . |
| 29 | The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 30 | The 999 call took a maddening amount of time , but finally the ambulance and the police were on their way . |