Example sentences of "to take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have been on the Pill may have nutritional deficiencies ( see p 260 ) and you may wish to take a nutritional supplement of the kind described on p 330 . |
| 2 | In some cases , it may be a good idea to take a nutritional supplement ( see p 330 ) . |
| 3 | You must be able to take casualties so make sure your units are big enough to take a serious hit without depleting their effectiveness . |
| 4 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 5 | He reached out to take a pig-skin handbag from his assistant . |
| 6 | If you wist to alter the car struturally , eg raise the roof to take a seated wheelchair passenger or change the doors to ramps , you would have to obtain a car through Car Chair , Gowrings or Widnes Car Centre Ltd , or buy the car on hire purchase . |
| 7 | The coefficient is expected to take a negative sign . |
| 8 | Given the economic climate , can architects who may be reluctant to embrace the entertainment mode afford to take a negative attitude ? |
| 9 | Just as the clinical professions can provide parents with the language and the concepts with which to take a negative view of the child , so they can provide the unwitting stimulus for the parent to enter a new , positive world in which things ‘ fall into place ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ What sixteen-year-old is going to take a thirteen-year-old home to meet his oldies ? |
| 11 | It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons . |
| 12 | Member governments continued to take a primary interest in the views of their own people , the EC was slow to make decisions and was not subject to proper democratic control , CAP was unreformed , and the Community lacked the political cohesion to act as a single ‘ force ’ in world affairs . |
| 13 | They are of no real value , although a Cleric might want to take a heretical work for the restricted library of his temple — this is quite acceptable . |
| 14 | But the following July Campbell returned to cover the measured kilometre at an average speed of 403.1 m.p.h. for the two runs , becoming the first man to take a shaft-driven vehicle over 400 m.p.h. and to break both land and water speed records in the same year . |
| 15 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 16 | Conservationists tend to take a liberal view of working elephants if only because their very existence depends on there being a healthy enough stock in the wild . |
| 17 | Much will depend on the legal knowledge and ingenuity of counsel and the court , as well as on the readiness of the court to take a liberal view . |
| 18 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |
| 19 | Those inmates classed as illiterate were obliged to take a compulsory form of basic education , with the aim that they would at least be able to read and write by the time they were released . |
| 20 | An alternative selection method which generally avoids this problem is to take a systematic selection of 2 from the range 1 to 586 . |
| 21 | To take a concrete example , an established characteristic of the pricing decision across many Western economies over several decades has been the tendency for firms , particularly firms in the manufacturing sector , to set prices as a mark up over variable costs , the most prominent among which is the money wage . |
| 22 | Opportunity has now been presented for someone to take a sober look at her writings which have been collected into one volume recently by Liz Johnson and Cecily O'Neill ( 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The solution to this problem was for Mrs Whitehouse personally to take a private prosecution of the play 's director , Michael Bogdanov . |
| 24 | The absence of the Bentham brothers and Trevor Robinson proved too great a hurdle against a competent home team that recovered from being 22–6 down after five minutes to take a 22–13 lead , then run the bench for a 77–49 victory . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's perfectly possible to take a violent dislike to someone on sight ! ’ |
| 26 | He could have moved directly south into the valley of the Dee , but instead he chose to head eastwards towards the vale of Clwyd , to take a cautious look at the borders of Lord Grey 's domain before he turned south to cross the mountains to Valle Crucis . |
| 27 | On the whole , therefore , the author tends to take a cautious line with regard to protectors : ideally , they should not be resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | ‘ All the officers of the Trust had a meeting to discuss training and we each decided to take a specific subject for one or two training sessions . |
| 29 | These priorities , for example , might be expressed through a request to teach a different age group or to be given time to take a specific course . |
| 30 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |