Example sentences of "to take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will still leave a wide choice of systems and it is important to take the correct perspective when making the final choice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some people only have to take the faintest whiff of the entrance hall of a hospital to be sharply transported back in time to relive a traumatic hospital experience ( endured during childhood perhaps ) ; they may feel shaky or even nauseous . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 9 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then she was able to take the mental step that brought her out into the light again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Suppose — to take the clearest example , which would make what I believe to be the nature of the world fall to the ground like a pack of cards — that there was a resurrection . |
| 17 | PC Chandler ‘ phoned his station in Valpy Street , and called for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Royal Berkshire Hospital . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most of it 's going to take the easy way short cut |
| 24 | His refusal to take the easy option is admirable . |
| 25 | I did n't go into this line of work to take the easy option every time things get rough . |
| 26 | If you drive yourself fairly hard in most areas of your life , it does n't hurt to take the easy option in your leisure time . ’ |
| 27 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 28 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 29 | The most straightforward approach is to take the narrow course of satisfying the client . |
| 30 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |