Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 2 | A matter which has taken a great deal of time was the proposal before ITAC in relation to future arrangements for the Electronic Distribution of the Crown Court List . |
| 3 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 4 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |
| 5 | A company with similar beginnings to Star but which has taken a different direction is ACT , based in Birmingham . |
| 6 | Janet , if somebody wants to take a partial surrender , I E , some of the cash from their fund , can they do it and how much will we charge them ? |
| 7 | Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups . |
| 8 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
| 9 | She wants to take a luxury winter cruise … next January … |
| 10 | Olshan makes Susan a powerful , smart , sensual woman moving surefootedly through the opulent Westchester County jungle where the Kaplans live : she issues orders to the au pair , knows the Manhattan-Hartsdale train times , and deals honestly with a husband who has taken a sexual vacation from her on the very afternoon of the Rosen drowning . |
| 11 | Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support . |
| 12 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 13 | As a result , she has taken a calculated decision to ensure that the royal grandchildren remain — whatever the cost — under her influence . |
| 14 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 15 | The two central characters are both academic teachers of English : Morris Zapp is one of the biggest guns in the Plotinus faculty , who elects to take a visiting professorship at Rummidge in order to escape from his marital problems ; his place is taken by Phillip Swallow , a naïve , amiable , unambitious Rummidge lecturer . |
| 16 | She does take a good photograph . |
| 17 | To see this one needs to take a closer look at some of the ways in which philosophy has been conceptualised . |
| 18 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps as a result of his unpopularity , speculation about him has taken a new turn . |
| 20 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 21 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 22 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 23 | ‘ He has taken a marked fancy to you , my dear , ’ pursued the other . |
| 24 | He has taken a marked fancy to my expectations , she might have said . |
| 25 | Although his title , The Rural Muse : Studies in the Peasant Poetry of England ( 1954 ) , implies that he has taken a positive view , he is hardpressed at times to defend the value of the peasant poet : |
| 26 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 27 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 28 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 30 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |