Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , these reactions only take place because of the presence of manufactured chlorine in the stratosphere .
2 The ‘ non-demographic ’ ( NDM ) projections only take account of expected trends in crime and the numbers sent to prison ; the ‘ demographic ’ ( DM ) projections also take into account expected changes in the age structure of the general population .
3 So many dog training clubs only take dogs when they are six months old … well past the steep part of the learning curve and often at an age when male dogs , especially , are starting to grow up ( and become as rebellious and resistant to authority as any human adolescent ! ) .
4 The formulae normally take account of the age , movements during the past , expected future movements and estimated scrap values of the stock as appropriate .
5 Public schools normally take children from the age of 13 ( usually the boys ' boarding schools ) or from the age of 11 .
6 When this occurs the couriers often take benzodiazepines to stop themselves from getting too ‘ high ’ or agitated , but the outcome is nevertheless often fatal .
7 However , in practice , trials rarely take place .
8 Some parents naturally take turns in distracting or managing the child .
9 Should planned deliveries not take place , and should usage continue , then eventually a stockout situation will be reached , where , for , the goods in question will be temporarily out-of-stock .
10 In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ?
11 Coasting movements also take place , but their exact scale is very difficult to determine in the presence of resident pairs at most coastal watching sites .
12 Statutory duties invariably take precedence over other aspects of the work and because of the publicity surrounding cases of child abuse , and the tendency to blame social workers when things go wrong , a disproportionate share of the energies and resources of SSDs is devoted to work with children .
13 Moreover , this may be why Æthelred 's charters sometimes take care to describe the legitimacy of the way the King had acquired the land being granted away .
14 Leisure activities still take place here although they are more likely to be water skiing , wind surfing and sailing rather than bathing .
15 Feminist efforts to increase women 's participation among psychologists rarely take account of age .
16 Searches for functional intersections thus take place at compatible levels ( see Figure 2.26 ) .
17 This does not mean that governments always take action when researchers identify a social problem , or act upon their findings .
18 Many bands now take responsibility for advertising their gigs , and these posters encourage these self-help initiatives .
19 All current Epson PCs now take advantage of this opportunity .
20 Humming-bird flowers have high sucrose/hexose ratios , while passerine ( sunbirds , white-eyes , honeyeaters and honeycreepers ) flowers have a lower ratio these birds also take fruit-juices , which are highly hexosedominated .
21 Moreover , these market figures only take account of multi-media delivered on a stand-alone optical disc platform .
22 The changes only take effect once you move back into the word processor .
23 While the panels normally take place in St Augustine 's in many instances it has been judged more beneficial to hold the meetings outside school ( e.g. in the secure wing of St Mary 's List D , at Rosevale school and at Larchgrove Assessment Centre ) .
24 More and more Nigerians also take advantage of the price differences to do a nice business smuggling goods across the border into the franc zone .
25 A general approximation is that a 10°C rise in temperature doubles the rate of reaction , but in practice , the usefulness of this approximation is limited by the fact that at temperatures far removed from ‘ normal ’ , other changes often take place which never occur at normal temperatures .
26 People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs .
27 Many of the shops are branches of multiple stores and , though their managers sometimes take part , they obviously do not have the same interest in it as the traders who were born and bred in the town .
28 Changes in storage practice , materials and containers sometimes take place without due regard for their effect on protective systems and the possibility of other forms of improvisation can never be eliminated .
29 Children and foreign language learners sometimes take figures of speech literally ( ‘ Was Queen Victoria really made of iron , Mummy ? ’ ,
30 Good managers therefore take steps to ensure that their projects avoid claims which will be disputed .
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