Example sentences of "to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A considerable list of diseases which the problem lies and enable you or your vet to take the correct steps to put things right . |
| 2 | This will still leave a wide choice of systems and it is important to take the correct perspective when making the final choice . |
| 3 | The alternative is to bury an architrave switch mounting box in the wall to take the terminal connector strip , and secure the light fitting centrally over this , so that the securing screws can go into wall plugs fitted in holes , which you drill in the wall either side of the box . |
| 4 | Allen said Soon-Yi had asked him to take the nude photos . |
| 5 | Each marketing response will have to take the relevant contingencies into account , so that ( to use the jargon ) it is situationally relevant . |
| 6 | Curiously , his other life as a painter could be part of the explanation : ‘ If you 're an artist you have to take the holistic view , ’ he suggests . |
| 7 | From April , Mr Huntingdon plans for either himself or another member of staff to take the Advanced Certificate in Food Hygiene as an added precaution . |
| 8 | The girls were required to take the Official Secrets oath . |
| 9 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 10 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |
| 11 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 12 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 13 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 14 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 15 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 16 | Then she was able to take the mental step that brought her out into the light again . |
| 17 | In the year 1820 , 170 years of uprisings and reforms ago , usually law-abiding folk were driven by poverty , unemployment , and hunger , to take the dangerous road to conspiracy and rebellion in an attempt to right their wrongs . |
| 18 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |
| 19 | In this inclination to take the causal items as prior to their effects , incidentally , we have the support of a good deal of science , indeed a strong scientific tradition , having to do with the principle of retarded action . |
| 20 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 21 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 22 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 23 | It 's easy to take off the outside when when you come to take the inside ones it 's quite difficult . |
| 24 | If depreciation is to be substituted for loan redemptions , then first of all the law must be changed , to take the principal repayments out of the revenue account so that they become balance sheet transfers as in business . |
| 25 | PC Chandler ‘ phoned his station in Valpy Street , and called for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Royal Berkshire Hospital . |
| 26 | Local authorities have , therefore , begun to help the disabled in their own homes by providing meals services , domestic help and so on , and in some cases they make arrangements to take the disabled person on holiday to give the other members of the household a break , although all of these services are restricted by cash limitations on local authority expenditure . |
| 27 | There is an ever-present temptation to take the easy way out and concentrate on items that are ‘ sexy ’ even though they may be irrelevant or misleading . |
| 28 | The temptation to take the easy way out was well-nigh irresistible with youngsters who had failed to make their way ( probably through no fault of their own ) and who showed their resentment . |
| 29 | But there 's something in even the very best of us which would really prefer to take the easy way out , if that 's at all possible . |
| 30 | He offered the pack to Bellamy , who accepted one , and conspicuously failed to give me the chance to take the easy way out by tarring the inside of my lungs until I choked . |