Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Having swept south from Ballinluig to Dunkeld and on eastward towards Meikleour , the Tay takes on yet another gushing river .
2 But , and secondly , what counts as rationality takes on much more subtle hues .
3 There is good reason for this ; at its best , the teaching situation takes on much of the character of the research process , with an open dialogue between the students and teacher , the teacher being the first among equals .
4 But this is also the first time that a young doctor takes on daily clinical responsibility for patients ' care , and in reality the service element provided by preregistration house officers underpins the medical care provided in many of our hospitals .
5 The short story is concentrated with a whole , complete atmosphere , whereas the novel is discursive and takes on more .
6 In other uses however the non-assertiveness takes on considerably more subtle forms .
7 This is also partly the reason why in Adorno 's theory music in a sense takes on too much autonomy , so much as to create a danger of a relapse into idealism .
8 The Volvo tour takes in solidly Socialist villages like Senghenydd and Abertridwr , includes a couple of detours for navigational error ( ‘ I 'm new here ’ says Stan ) and ends back at the station with just seconds before the train departs .
9 Invertebrates are generally defined as animals that do not have a backbone or internal skeleton and that simple definition takes in around 97% of the whole of the living species of animals in the world .
10 Following Sealink 's withdrawal from the route , Hoverspeed takes over today ( April 11 ) with its fast SeaCat. 432 aircraft-style seats reinforce the illusion of travelling on a jumbo jet .
11 As soon as she closes her eyes , the kaleidoscope takes over again .
12 Incidentally , the ability to respond visually to very slow movements fits in well , for the semi-circular canals fail to respond to slow rotations , so the visual mechanism takes over just when it is most needed , when the inertial mechanism fails .
13 Regarding Webb , who quit Southend last season , Bates said : ‘ He takes over immediately , initially on a three-month appointment until the end of the season .
14 What will happen when China takes over hardly bears thinking about , for that country 's record on conservation is not particularly promising .
15 Song persists in Murder in the Cathedral , but Christian liturgy takes over almost entirely .
16 The new queen takes over as sole reproducer and soon swamps the colony with her own offspring .
17 A new government , a centre-right coalition led by the mainstream Conservative Party , takes over formally on Monday .
18 Its got , its got er one the downward thrust , one for an angled thrust and one for level thrust , and its got a , they reckon its got about a twenty minute range if it takes off vertically
19 The best of british waterski-ing is on show this weekend at Kirtons Farm just off the M4 … over the years we 've produced 5 world records … 6 world champions … 8 european records … 55 european champions and 21 team golds … some success story which should continue in the masters competition which takes off tomorrow and reaches the finals on sunday afternoon …
20 The meal over , she takes off again and flies to another part of the cave where there is less pandemonium .
21 ‘ We 've got to find it before it takes off again ! ’
22 It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here .
23 The passage takes off thereafter in ecstatic inventory .
24 The Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change management services to the software , and is claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client-server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system manager 's time , according to the company .
25 Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli .
26 The patio takes up over half of the area .
27 The earlier chapters have disposed of other alleged stumbling blocks , and the next chapter takes up yet another one , the idea that natural selection can only destroy , never construct .
28 The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing .
29 Finally , for good measure , let's say that the operating system kernel takes up just 13Kb of RAM and the entire executive and developers code will fit onto a single 720Kb floppy when compressed .
30 The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing .
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