Example sentences of "take the [adj] route " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bus takes the stupidest route , it 's |
| 2 | The railway , built by Kitchener in 1897 as part of the reconquest of the Sudan , takes the shorter route and cuts across the desert . |
| 3 | They chose to dismantle themselves and start from scratch all over again , rather than take the easy route of formulaic consolidation of their position . |
| 4 | Rather than take the easy route of making populist entertainment , she is now doing all she can — even press interviews — to persuade the audience to come to her . |
| 5 | But he had indicated , on his appointment as vice-president last spring , that he would not take the traditional route to the presidency as he would be retiring from OUP during 1993 . |
| 6 | Most foreign visitors will probably take the southern route along the waterway to the international gardens where the British Garden has a prime position . |
| 7 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 8 | We will take the shorter route from Portela to Santo António da Serra , more commonly known as Santo da Serra ( 41km ) . |
| 9 | Taking the blue route as an example , an outer northern route would achieve limited traffic benefits on the A fifty nine and A six six one . |
| 10 | Today , however , she was n't taking the familiar route up to the endocrine ward , with the familiar reluctant realisation that Deana Davenport would probably be on her shift . |
| 11 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 12 | The signal sequence in preprogastrin — that is , residues 1–21 , is sufficient to ensure sequestration into the cisternal space of the endoplasmic reticulum so that the peptides we have measured are likely to be localised to the secretory pathway , most probably taking the constitutive route to the exterior . |
| 13 | Lennox has always truly wanted to fight for the world title and was happy taking the tough route . |
| 14 | Nicholson on the other hand was taking the pretty route , basically because he had no choice ; no one was making him any offers . |
| 15 | Mike Wedderburn taking the scenic route to the corner flag . |
| 16 | Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route . |
| 17 | Money-Go-Round : Taking the direct route to investing in unit trusts |
| 18 | We would wish a second investigator to consider whether his predecessor took the right route , whether all the relevant leads were followed , whether sufficient attention was paid to evidence which was inconsistent with the working hypothesis , and whether the methods used ( particularly in interrogation ) did not distort the result . |
| 19 | RACING pigeon Lucky took the easy route from Malta to Britain … flying on a holiday jet in her owner 's duty-free bag . |
| 20 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 21 | After lunch in Sunderland , I took the coastal route home , hoping the notorious Hartlepool to Middlesbrough line could secure my fortune . |
| 22 | We took the shortest route back to the clubhouse . |
| 23 | After his playing career ended , Baxter took the inevitable route into pub management . |
| 24 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 25 | Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room . |
| 26 | So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder . |
| 27 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 28 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 29 | They took the scenic route back to the Palace . |
| 30 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |