Example sentences of "take a certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off . |
| 2 | It takes a certain type of man to do a neighbourhood beat . |
| 3 | DNA briefly exposed to acid takes a certain number of aldehyde ( -CHO ) groups on board , which are stained purple by Schiff 's reagent . |
| 4 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 5 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 6 | This packet takes a certain amount of restraint , because it , it holds a lot of different things in it . |
| 7 | Erm , but that takes a certain amount of dexterity . |
| 8 | Two car bombs in Karachi kill 72 and injure 250 ; the authorities blame ‘ saboteurs of foreign origin ’ ( in the presence of such disasters , it takes a certain frivolity to care whether those who perpetrated the act were natives or not ) . |
| 9 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 10 | If the judge intimates that you should take a certain course , say : ‘ If your lordship pleases . ’ |
| 11 | It would only take a certain kind of eyelashes or a whiff of one particular aftershave and I would be sick with love . |
| 12 | Lie to me , and the gentleman behind you will probably break your fingers one by one , and very possibly the gentlemen wit the club will take a certain delight in knocking out your teeth . " |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , but we could only take a certain amount of weight . ’ |
| 14 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 15 | A National Film Studio , combining the small companies into one strong conglomerate , had been proposed , but this idea made no more headway than a proposal to negotiate a reciprocity deal with the Americans , whereby they would take a certain number of British films into national distribution in return for free access to British screens . |
| 16 | If the landlord does not grant and the tenant does not take a certain term the grant does not create a lease . |
| 17 | Such pre-conditions might include the verification of financial or other information relating to the target , or merger control authorities taking a certain course of action , or the target complying with its obligations under Rule 20.2 ( equality of information to a bona fide competing potential offeror ) . |
| 18 | The balance will give a datum or basic figure which will generally be turned into a lump sum by taking a certain number of years ' purchase . |
| 19 | But I have always shied away from using it on tables , perhaps feeling that a table should be capable of taking a certain amount of abuse . |
| 20 | Yet , poorer as it made him , he took a certain pride in keeping his wife . |
| 21 | Despite her pique about his refusal to discuss the will , she took a certain pride in showing him her brother 's room . |
| 22 | He took a certain route leading to another kind of life and ended up famous . |
| 23 | Such major changes of strategy are n't made without sacrifices , and the consequent upheavals took a certain toll at Cadbury 's , not least of which was the need to reduce the work-force . |
| 24 | Because we think we have tamed industrialism we no longer fear it ; but in the age of laissez faire , when the power of the manufacturers seemed unbounded , it took a certain courage to think for oneself and run the risk of appearing ridiculous . |
| 25 | Thinking along those lines , I took a certain glee in the thought that the style , like its progenitor , might crack and crumble into maudlin self-justification . |
| 26 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 27 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 28 | take a certain conveyance , namely a … |
| 29 | ‘ take a certain conveyance , namely a … ’ 'Take' means some movement of the conveyance intending to put the conveyance into motion ( Blayney v Knight [ 1975 ] Crim LR 237 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ take a certain conveyance namely a … ’ |