Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dark ages ; but there are a few performers who take these pieces seriously , and their beacons light the path for others to follow . |
| 2 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
| 3 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 4 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 5 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 6 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 7 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 8 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 9 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 10 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 11 | Start with English is a colourful , straightforward course in six parts which takes young children from beginners to pre-intermediate level . |
| 12 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 13 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 14 | Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings . |
| 15 | One major factor in all these changes is the great increase in the proportion of married women who take paid employment . |
| 16 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 17 | Consequently they underinvest in long-term projects which take many years before they yield a positive return . |
| 18 | But my studies go on , Music GCSE is just one of the nine exams I take next May ( 1994 ) , then I would like to do ‘ A ’ -level music , and hopefully , Music at University . |
| 19 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 20 | the team was hoisted onto open trucks which took five hours to crawl the three mile distance from Lahore Airport to the Fortress Stadium with thousands and thousands of fans running alongside the procession . |
| 21 | We went through in two minutes what took other people an hour and a half . |
| 22 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 23 | Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class . |
| 24 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 25 | I have rarely met two Ministers who take more trouble to carry out the duties of their ministerial office . |
| 26 | More than that he can mash these lists of prospects together to produce delightfully implausible juxtapositions : exercise-bike owners who take educational holidays to the Ukraine ( there are only seven in Greater London ) ; lepers with a penchant for Janet Reger lingerie ( surprisingly enough , several hundred in Roseland alone ) ; Liberal Democrat Nintendo enthusiasts who are also Wagner buffs ( not as many as one might have hoped for ) . |
| 27 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |