Example sentences of "take at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 2 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ That would be a decision Mr Kinnock would take at the time , ’ Mr Mandelson declared loftily . |
| 4 | What are you taking at the moment ? |
| 5 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 6 | Police have said there was evidence of drug taking at the £17-a-head event , including discarded packets of white powder and some cannabis resin , but there were no arrests for drugs . |
| 7 | Are you encouraged by the direction the society is taking at the moment in relation to women and education ? |
| 8 | Whatever the interpretation , the cumulative research and survey data since 1978 suggests an urgent need to took at the justifications , dynamics and effectiveness of grouping . |
| 9 | We decided to accelerate the measures already under way to improve efficiency and reduce costs , and this resulted in the exceptional charges we took at the half-year . |
| 10 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 11 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 12 | These are what we took at the museum are n't they ? |
| 13 | Must be taken at the same time daily or no more than three hours late . |
| 14 | Teaching children should always be taken at the child 's pace , answering questions as truthfully and accurately as possible , rather than trying to tell the whole story . |
| 15 | Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well . |
| 16 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |
| 17 | The second government measure increased producers ' bargaining power with financiers by reserving for British films a portion of the money taken at the domestic box office . |
| 18 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 19 | Any decision over handing over a section of line , or even a route , to LRT is taken at the top by Regional Railways ' managing director Gordon Pettitt . |
| 20 | Edith Cresson was 58 in January ; she is a grandmother but , judging by photographs taken at the outset of her long career , she looks better now than she did then . |
| 21 | A SIGNIFICANT step was taken at the weekend towards the development of eastern Europe 's capital market , as representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development discussed making the bank 's first domestic bond issue in a former communist country with Hungarian investors and finance ministry officials . |
| 22 | This review process should result in an agreement of action to be taken at the next meeting to consolidate and celebrate strengths and to overcome weaknesses . |
| 23 | Breakfast can be taken at the top of the Schilthorn ; take the cable car to the ‘ Piz Gloria ’ revolving restaurant for a breakfast served in the most glorious of surroundings . |
| 24 | Half board is also available with meals taken at the nearby Gasthof Stern . |
| 25 | As mentioned above , the timing of this will be influenced by the strength or weakness of the currency in the currency markets but the decision to cover or not to cover should be taken at the time the exposure arises . |
| 26 | With respect to the issue of subsidiarity , he emphasised that the British view of subsidiarity was to have decisions taken at the lowest effective level of authority . |
| 27 | This may be an injection or , as is increasingly common , a number of tablets or capsules all to be taken at the same time . |
| 28 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 29 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 30 | There is thus a proliferation of public examinations of a practical kind , any of which may be taken at the new schools , of which the GCSE seems to be only one , if it is to be taken at all . |