Example sentences of "the [noun sg] takes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Installation is n't difficult — screwing the battery onto the board takes a few seconds . |
| 2 | To a certain extent it does not matter how well a product performs if the user takes a strong dislike to it then it will not succeed in the long run . |
| 3 | Baloo the bear takes a shine to his mancub friend Mowgli in The Jungle Book . |
| 4 | Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again . |
| 5 | Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain . |
| 6 | The girl takes a punch as well , and I hit some bastard with a chair . |
| 7 | There are a number of counties — Berkshire , Norfolk , Aberdeenshire , and now Gloucestershire — in which , because they contain royal residences , the Queen takes a particularly close personal interest . |
| 8 | The HSE takes a generally sanguine view of the dangers to health from biotechnology . |
| 9 | ( July 24-Aug 23 ) Your ruler the Sun takes a swipe at Neptune on October 2 and then Jupiter on the 3rd . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 11 | ‘ The Committee takes a strictly non-political approach to the issues and has proposed a number of amendments to ensure , in particular , that Britain complies with its EC obligations . |
| 12 | But it also asserts that parents may need assistance in exercising their responsibilities , and here the Act takes a quantum leap from the old , restricted notions of ‘ prevention ’ , to a more positive outreaching duty of ‘ support for children and families ’ . |
| 13 | Later , if the child takes a definite stand as a Christian , there will also be a deeper challenge to struggle to change at heart ; tackling inward dispositions as well as facing the difficult questions of faith . |
| 14 | After passing the stage of infancy the education of the child takes a different shape , the child is taught how to sit and walk properly to avoid having bow legs , for a straight figure is admired by Gikuyu , especially amongst the warriors it is one of the qualities of handsomeness . |
| 15 | The shop takes a commission on sales and the seller has helped pay for his trip . |
| 16 | In some cases , the microchip takes a man 's place in facing danger . |
| 17 | ( Using a Supermon min-assembler , for example , the copy ( transfer ) command is simply ‘ T 2000 27FF 9000 ’ and the process takes a mere fraction of a second . ) |
| 18 | The process takes a little time to grasp but very soon you will quickly put down on paper a series of " main points " . |
| 19 | The process takes a previously printed image which before the ink is dry is dusted with a resinous powder . |
| 20 | For a tax to be regarded as progressive , its rate structure must be such that the tax takes a rising proportion of total income as income increases ; a proportional tax takes a constant proportion , whilst a regressive tax takes a declining proportion . |
| 21 | The product takes a copy of the target MVS application and replicates the Cobol source code on an OS/2-based database server . |
| 22 | The parcel presented should be amusing , either an unusual shape , or several boxes inside each other so that the gift takes a while to find . |
| 23 | The leader takes a watch with a second hand , points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet . |
| 24 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 25 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 26 | The pragmatist takes a skeptical attitude toward the assumption we are assuming is embodied in the concept of law : he denies that past political decisions in themselves provide any justification for either using or withholding the state 's coercive power . |
| 27 | The anthropologist takes a worm 's eye view . |
| 28 | If the excitation is now transferred to phase B the rotor takes a step in the anticlockwise direction and the opposite pair of rotor teeth are aligned with the phase B stator teeth . |
| 29 | The birds are ready before he returns , and the wife takes a morsel of them , but can not stop herself before she has eaten both birds . |
| 30 | While these studies clearly show the deleterious effect of short spacing on child mortality , they also indicate that the relationship takes a " U " or reversed " J " shape . |