Example sentences of "[coord] take [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 2 | Robyn opens a drawer in her desk and takes out the appropriate chit . |
| 3 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 4 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 5 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 6 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 7 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 8 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 9 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 10 | Duncan opened the folder and took out the slim report . |
| 11 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 12 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 13 | What is needed from you Congress is to fight these distortions and to take back the front page headlines and make sure that the headlines are accurate , fair and truthful . |
| 14 | Her paper argues for the importance of standpoint to be taken into account in discussion of fundamentals such as epistemology and ontology , but also suggests that feminist political theories which assume that a conception of the subject is already available need to be complemented by more radical feminist theories ( such as those of Daly or Irigaray ) which criticise and take apart the metaphysical implications inherent in philosophical conceptions of the subject . |
| 15 | They identify with the global capitalist system , reconceptualize their several national interests in terms of the global system , and take on the political project of reconceptualizing the national interests of their co-nationals in terms of the global capitalist system . |
| 16 | By the middle of next year the bank will move its head office into Poultry , and take on the heavy mantle of tradition . |
| 17 | Its operators bring the dip to the sheep and take away the left-over chemical which is disposed of at an approved site . |
| 18 | On Friday 2nd April at Lansdowne Football Club , Lansdowne Road , they take the wraps off the music of the night — and take over the entire Club in the process ! . |
| 19 | He realised first that a muon in the vicinity of a hydrogen atom would orbit 207 times nearer to the central nucleus than would the electron , and so the muon would get inside the electron 's orbit and take over the electrical attraction of the proton ; it is an atomic ‘ excuse me ’ dance routine . |
| 20 | The other voice often brings immediate reward but takes away the inner light and hardens the heart , blinding us to what is right and what is wrong , so that we are no longer certain which path to take . |
| 21 | Primary earnings under F R S Three including everything down twenty one percent , but taking out the non-operating items , that 's the erm fixed assets , er profit sales on the one hand and the old extraordinaries on the other , and you have I think a more meaningful guide to our performance a reduction in any nine percent . |
| 22 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |
| 23 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |