Example sentences of "[conj] takes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laws of Canute of 1020x1022 state : " It is heathen practice if one worships idols , namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon , fire or flood , wells or stones or any kind of forest trees , or if one practises witchcraft or encompasses death by any means , either by sacrifice or divination , or takes any part in such delusions . " |
| 2 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 3 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 4 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
| 5 | Policy often operates with a view of the family that takes insufficient account of demographic and social change : |
| 6 | Soccer : Whelan hits late goal to frustrate Portsmouth Liverpool force FA Cup semi-final replay as John Byrne scores the winner that takes Second Division Sunderland to Wembley |
| 7 | The definition we shall adopt here , in the tradition of Hume and many others , is one that takes causal circumstances and hence causes to precede their effects in time . |
| 8 | The skill that takes five years to learn |
| 9 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 10 | rise in traffic demand , is not it about time that his Department stopped being a Department only for roads and instead sought to introduce a proper , integrated transport system that takes real account of environmental considerations ? |
| 11 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 12 | WinEdit is essentially an ASCII text editor that takes full advantage of the Windows graphical environment . |
| 13 | If Z is a parameter that takes intergenerational differences in heritability into account then HZ denotes the parental heritability . |
| 14 | To direct the beam of light precisely where you want it , choose a fitting that takes narrow-beam reflector bulbs or has a narrow-beam reflector in the fitting . |
| 15 | Krísuvík is south and slightly west of Reykjavik , reached by a road across a beautiful lava field and through valleys that are almost civilized , or by a fine walk that takes these valleys and continues along a ridge above the bird-filled lake of Kleífarvatn . |
| 16 | Quintin Hailsham told me later : ‘ When I first read the report my hair stood on end , and at my age that takes some doing . ’ |
| 17 | Is it a normal fire tender that takes this pod along ? |
| 18 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |
| 19 | It is contoured to give excellent line lay and takes 100 metres of 2½lb line . |
| 20 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 21 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 22 | The text maintains insistently that Jesus 's rightful heir was his brother James , and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘ defected ’ to Pauline thought . |
| 23 | Streep grabs the opportunity to mock such concerns with undisguised relish , providing one of the best comic performances of her career , while Hawn seems curiously ill at ease and takes great care to show us she remains in superb bodily nick . |
| 24 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 25 | I have one of those new fangled small cameras which does almost everything for you , and takes perfect photographs . |
| 26 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 27 | Its system is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-driven core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 28 | Its solution is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-drive core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 29 | The Unit has 26 academic staff and takes full-time PhD students . |
| 30 | It features seven full-wash programmes , including intensive wash , quick-wash and cold rinse , plus an economy half-load facility and takes eight place settings . |