Example sentences of "[coord] take [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 4 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 5 | The expansion you will face in 1993 could well be on the creative front , making this an ideal year to go into production or take on a major commitment . |
| 6 | But if your works pension is contracted out of SERPS , then you can either be a member of your works pension scheme OR take out a personal pension — but not both . |
| 7 | And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally . |
| 8 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 9 | Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector |
| 10 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 11 | Robyn opens a drawer in her desk and takes out the appropriate chit . |
| 12 | It is the private world of the student 's mind that is at issue , a world that should expand and take on a rich array of colours , within the course of studies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 16 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 17 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 18 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 19 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |
| 20 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 21 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 22 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 23 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 26 | Twenty-five years ago , the line built by George Stephenson in 1836 was saved from closure and took on a new lease of life as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway . |
| 27 | It changed as the Dornier accelerated away from them , and took on a rhythmic throbbing as it left the ground . |
| 28 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England in 1603 , and because the country now had an absent sovereign , the symbols of majesty became a substitute and took on an extra significance . |