Example sentences of "take [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | year but the end result came when the two children did get took into foster care erm , that 's when I realized that it was a problem and I had to do something about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Les has got what it takes for international football . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 4 | Sandra paints from photographs she takes of old , often derelict buildings . |
| 5 | Glorious stuff , of course , but one for those whose devotion verges on fanaticism , and are really ready for four studio takes of Ready Teddy and six versions of Good Golly Miss Molly . |
| 6 | New works by her are on at American Fine Arts from 6 to 27 March ) while Michael St John , also smitten with folks from ‘ toon town , paints cartoon characters in the act of doing double takes against vast white backgrounds ( at Amy Lipton until the end of the month ) . |
| 7 | Also , operators at the surface can reel in the drill like a fishing line , and replace the bit in one tenth the time it takes with conventional systems . |
| 8 | Every conventional wet system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and the system pipework , as well as fresh oxygen , which aids further corrosion . |
| 9 | The system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and within the pipework . |
| 10 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 11 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 12 | In Japan the role that the state takes in developing industry policy with respect to new and declining branches of industry effectively operates to prevent the arteriosclerosis of national capitalism which might otherwise occur . |
| 13 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 14 | It also takes in fresh oxygen , which aids further corrosion . |
| 15 | Part one is an international overview of women 's revolutionary history which takes in French revolutionary women , Mary Wollstonecraft , the suffragettes , and the main issues of feminism today — rape , body image , domestic violence . |
| 16 | ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’ |
| 17 | It takes in off-market deals involving a professional intermediary as well as on-market transactions . |
| 18 | However , it differs in two ways from the approach long-wave theory takes to industrial change . |
| 19 | It is unclear what attitude the new administration takes to Japanese investment , but if it were politically acceptable , sale of a large part , if not all , the company to 4.7% shareholder NEC Corp would make the most sense , although it is not clear that NEC would now be interested . |
| 20 | The aunts have brought more baggage than the passengers Rainbow takes to long-haul flights at Heathrow . |
| 21 | Later on , you can guide their play by , say , suggesting that they see how many little cups of water it takes to full the big jug , or by getting them to find out how long it takes to fill a floating cup with water until it sinks . |
| 22 | I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ? |
| 23 | But even in its narrow definition and with the actual limitations of its practice in classical Greece , literacy is still takes by Goody to have consequences , or implications , of a far-reaching kind . |
| 24 | You know how long these things can take through normal channels … . |
| 25 | Brushing aside Allen 's pleas not to ‘ take as selfish view of Socialism , a national view ’ , Wheatley argued that the ‘ Living Wage ’ strategy would only work if import duties were introduced to prevent foreign capitalists , employing sweated labour , from reaping the benefit of the increased demand in the British economy . |
| 26 | The next stage of what we 're doing is trying to take things a stage further on to what action can you take for fair trade ? |
| 27 | Speaker , is there some sanction that the chair can take against honourable members of this house persistently raising bogus points of order . |
| 28 | It can take in mortgages , it can take in property , it can take in other values , so that R P I is a very much a , a negotiable figure . |
| 29 | But RTE chiefs have ordered that TV coverage should also take in other topics . |
| 30 | The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all . |