Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] takes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this risk to human health , aluminium foil takes a huge amount of energy to produce and is not an environmentally acceptable packaging . |
| 2 | The latest issue of the Microprocessor Report takes a deserved pot shot at Unix as still being insufficiently standardised that it may have missed its opportunity to make any credible dent on the desktop — Solaris and Destiny notwithstanding . |
| 3 | The N tuple method takes a totally different approach as you will see . |
| 4 | The winter line takes a descending right traverse under an overlap from the stance above the upper crux . |
| 5 | These are quite legal to buy in the States , but the Highway Patrol takes a particularly dim view of their use . |
| 6 | They 'd get off the bus from West London there because they were such big Faces fans and Malcolm 's shop was right next door to the home of the dandy fashion shop Granny Takes A Trip — a shop which had a Cadillac sticking out of its window — where The Faces and The Stones bought their clothes |
| 7 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |
| 8 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 9 | ON SECOND THOUGHTS , PERHAPS YOU SHOULD WORK ALONE — TED 'S VODKA BILL TAKES A HEFTY CHUNK OUT OF OUR BUDGET |
| 10 | Replication Server takes a revolutionary approach to distributed database for those organizations who do n't need absolute data synchronization but the nee need the advantages of up to date data at ll of its points of most frequent use . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , specific literary confiscation legislation takes a number of forms . |
| 12 | While all sex therapists insist on the need for emotional involvement to sustain good sex , there are some couples whose sex life takes a hike because they have become too close . |
| 13 | The VDU statement takes a list of numeric arguments ( constants or variables ) and sends their least significant bytes as characters to the screen . |
| 14 | Whereas the output of manufacturing production takes a discrete , material form , the output of service production is regarded as , in some sense , intangible , as a non-material product . |
| 15 | Capital finance takes a different form and the Government has overall control of it ( in the form of upper limits to the amount the organization can borrow — known as ‘ external financing limits ’ ) . |
| 16 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 17 | Coping with hearing loss takes a great deal of energy . |
| 18 | I think to sum up , I would be wanting to say , that this County Council takes a view that it is about the provision of services . |
| 19 | Erm and I think the Labour motion actually ensures that the County Council takes a more active part in addressing these issues as soon as possible . |
| 20 | The role of the project leader takes a number of forms depending on his level of authority . |
| 21 | However , if that application process takes a long time , it is felt that one can not upset that person 's lifestyle — he may be married — and he is allowed to stay . |
| 22 | Accommodation theory takes a range of variation as a given part of each speaker 's competence ; it seeks to relate some or all of this variation to the relationship between particular interlocutors . |
| 23 | In each of their second and third years , students of the single-subject English course takes a series of four core units which have as a focus the relationship between literature and its background . |
| 24 | A poll tax takes a larger proportion of poor people 's pay , but does least ‘ damage ’ to the ‘ efficient ’ allocation of labour . |
| 25 | The trust manager takes a percentage of your original capital , typically 5 per cent , when you first invest and a yearly fee of , say , 1 per cent of the fund . |
| 26 | This supply response takes a variety of forms depending on the institutional arrangements within particular labour markets , but the Lucas model postulates that there will be a diminished demand for holidays and other leisure activities and an increased demand for overtime or weekend working . |
| 27 | The JUSTICE Report takes a different tack . |