Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RFU should also take the overdue step of encouraging the development of the game in state schools by paying teachers for the time they spend coaching . |
| 2 | But you should never take the easy option . |
| 3 | The haulier should therefore take the utmost care in selecting a good insurance broker and then take advantage of his skill and expertise . |
| 4 | ‘ Secondly , let's just take the educational side of things . |
| 5 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 6 | If it was me I 'd just take the bloody thing out and have a look at it . |
| 7 | To relax , said George , they 'd sometimes take the 113 bus to the end of the line at Shoreditch and then walk home . |
| 8 | It was because he was so alert , so curious about the world , about books and films , that Ghatak could never take the easy way out . |
| 9 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 10 | The social security official required to secure the delivery of benefits to one-parent families , but also expected to prevent abuse , may well take the latter consideration more seriously than the former , letting his or her conception of morality and stereotypes about the social behaviour of the claimants influence behaviour . |
| 11 | They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth . |
| 12 | If it 's just left like that I shall just take the whole lot and dump it in the dustbin ! |
| 13 | One can , I think , readily see that a therapist who is exclusively concerned with individual patients and the remedying of their neurotic conflicts will tend to perceive the whole issue very much from the individual 's point of view and will merely take the cultural setting as a given datum against which the neuroses of his patients are played out . |
| 14 | It will also take the former Model 3 but in this case a P adapter is required in place of the rotating back . |
| 15 | Most foreign visitors will probably take the southern route along the waterway to the international gardens where the British Garden has a prime position . |
| 16 | Recipes for disaster will probably take the following form : the ticket will say 7.15 pm for 7.45 pm , and at 8.30 pm ‘ the lads ’ are still attacking the free bar . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will now take the National Grid Company back into state ownership . |
| 18 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 19 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 20 | This argument overlooks a feature of addictive disease that is often overlooked by those who currently advocate substitution with medically prescribed drugs : the addict will commonly take the prescribed drug and an additional illegal drug or may sell the prescribed drug in order to obtain a preferred illegal drug . |
| 21 | You will definitely take the odd blow to the mid-section so your muscles should be strong enough to absorb some impact energy . |
| 22 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 23 | A search will therefore take the minimum time shown in Fig. 7.2 . |
| 24 | A manager can also take the initial foundation course which tackles those issues that may be relevant to any manager , whether inside or outside the CAB . |
| 25 | It can then take the vital CO 2 on the water surface out of the air . |
| 26 | In practice however awareness is unequal , variable , uncertain , with impassable limits even in the case of self-knowledge , so that we can never take the full measure of our reactions from all viewpoints ; like the child wondering whether to risk another helping at dinner , we require an ‘ ought ’ whenever we are losing sight of the reaction at an unsustainable height of awareness . |