Example sentences of "[that] takes the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . )
2 Most of the leading academics in business ethics have a grounding in moral philosophy , a discipline that takes the concept of altruism — doing good simply because it is right — rather seriously .
3 But could n't could n't you do one that takes the competencies from the probationary work book and puts that down .
4 Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous .
5 They too can be helped to return to their former prowess by following a step-by-step programme that takes the patient from one simple goal , like talking to a partner without progressing to necking , to the next ( necking without petting ) , until he has the confidence and physical resources to achieve full and satisfactory penetration .
6 Then then then the winner of course is the one that takes the money .
7 I think Councillor , County Councillor , should refer to the jet out the culvert , there 's not a culvert , that 's two pipes that takes the water , overflow water across the .
8 It 's not a culvert it 's two pipes that takes the water in ordinary times , ordinary river level , across the road but if there is heavy rain the ford , you 'll find that the ford will be always flooded so er it wo n't be alleviating th the flooding of the , of that part of the road .
9 Look for music that takes the plunge into the infinities of outer or inner space , rather than music which paddles through the shallows of everyday feeling .
10 Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room .
11 And because this takes what do you call something what do you call something that takes the colour away ?
12 And the conveyor that takes the stuff away .
13 It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants .
14 In Britain some 4,000 stations have gone out of use since the 1960s , and many of them have vanished altogether — swept away with a callous disregard for our architectural heritage that takes the breath away .
15 By day it is the blue that takes the lead . ’
16 This final ignorance is anticipated by an innocence in the merchant that takes the form of his persistent lack of awareness of the loaded nature of particular forms of language use , of double meanings and innuendo .
17 So , we will tackle pruning in a different way , one that takes the mystery out of it .
18 The ‘ technocratic consciousness ’ that takes the place of the old bourgeois ideology is not based on collective repression .
19 The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording .
20 In order to defend the legislative principle of integrity , therefore , we must defend the general style of argument that takes the community itself as a moral agent .
21 But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket .
22 And you 'll find that the it 's normally the woman that takes the initiative and crosses the road which she 's unsure of .
23 Who is it that takes the burden of grief ?
24 Between the two is the road , and a small piazzetta that takes the palazzo 's name .
25 Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame .
26 Mirrored walls are obviously useful ; so is good lighting — particularly uplights in corners — and anything that takes the eye out and along like diagonal patterns , trellis , pale colours , to add a sense of perspective .
27 This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time .
28 Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time .
29 The way that takes the town ,
30 They are known ‘ by the experience of every man that takes the pains to observe those motions within himself ’ .
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