Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , what remains especially striking and distinctive is the English reluctance to take back the elderly within the home as dependents . |
| 3 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 4 | Very few general hospital units , however , have recognized how important this service was to individual patients and now it usually falls to a beleaguered social worker to take on the complex task of sorting out welfare benefits ; social workers are not , however , experts in this field and it is a time-consuming task that few of them relish . |
| 5 | The false idea is that French culture took over the leading position of Italy . |
| 6 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 7 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 8 | He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ . |
| 9 | A large smile took over the small face of Elmer . |
| 10 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 11 | Enticing private enterprise to take over the American Landsat remote-sensing system is fairly easy to understand . |
| 12 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 13 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 14 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 15 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 16 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 17 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 18 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 19 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 20 | The young lad took out the large chopper his father used to cleave wood for the fire and chased the bully out of the house and down the street . |
| 21 | At such close range , the blast from the shortened barrel took out the entire patrol . |
| 22 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 23 | In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà . |
| 24 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 25 | It is a sufficient approximation to take on the right-hand side of eqn ( 7.20 ) , so that . |