Example sentences of "[vb infin] take a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you are hoping to work in a subordinate position for the very person who is interviewing you , you do not need to take a passive role in the interview . |
| 2 | We shall return to this issue later in this chapter , but before we do we need to take a brief look at the way in which ideas of change have influenced other aspects of education , in particular curriculum development and innovation . |
| 3 | They see him as a possibility for the future and they would like to take a closer look at him . |
| 4 | Porterfield , still seeking a replacement for out-of-favour Dave Beasant , said : ‘ We would like to take a close look at him training with us . ’ |
| 5 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 6 | I 'd like to take a few moments of your time … |
| 7 | The first three sections will look take a broad approach to the subject : |
| 8 | Sometimes they 'd , they 'd try taking a good dose of Epsom Salts to see if that would start things you know but er there was very little , very little they could do . |
| 9 | If the scientists succeed , they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices . |
| 10 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 11 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 12 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 13 | Batty recognises that he could have taken a sharper look at the derivative nature of the designs or examined some of the problems likely to face the company in the future . |
| 14 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 15 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 16 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 17 | Could she somehow have taken a wrong turning on the straight , unbranching surface ? |
| 18 | The demands of beating the Belgian champions with only ten men must have taken a physical toll of Smith 's side . |
| 19 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 20 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 21 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |
| 22 | But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’ |
| 23 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 24 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 25 | Women who have been on the Pill may have nutritional deficiencies ( see p 260 ) and you may wish to take a nutritional supplement of the kind described on p 330 . |
| 26 | Big industry will have to take a bigger share of the professional clubs . |
| 27 | The energy crisis may well mean that governments and the EEC will have to take a fresh look at the provision of public transport as a means of developing democratic tourism . |
| 28 | British Aerospace said its advisers would have to take a detailed look at Ferranti 's books to satisfy themselves that there were no further problems before the company could proceed . |
| 29 | LEARNER drivers may soon have to take a written exam as part of their tests . |
| 30 | But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal . |