Example sentences of "one takes the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVE heard many stories of people running into old school friends after a number of years , but this one takes the biscuit . |
| 2 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 3 | If one takes the position that human right to life is absolute , then one must show a morally relevant difference between human and animal life that justifies denying that an animal 's right to life is absolute , and I believe we have shown that such a difference is not readily found . |
| 4 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |
| 5 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 6 | Whether one takes the view that the whole school ( c.f. |
| 7 | However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us . |
| 8 | One takes the point , whilst insisting that scrupulosity and rigour are matters of means not ends . |
| 9 | Another Mitchell known as " Puddin " was for many years tree planter in the village and at the later part of the 19th century planted trees around the cemetery , always maintaining he was one short , and if one takes the trouble to look there is a gap still awaiting the missing tree . |
| 10 | It 's not in industrial use if one takes the definition that it 's railway land . |