Example sentences of "take [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 2 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 3 | You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ? |
| 4 | The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't realise if I agreed they would take off the old mouthpiece and put on a new one . |
| 6 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 7 | I have no evidence to support it , but I suspect that Ministers looking for private schools for their children will not take as a key selling point class sizes of more than 35 or 40 . |
| 8 | Erm simply to remind you of the position of of Selby District in in that our interest in a new settlement emerged out of concern for the quality of life in existing villages in in Selby district , and concerns for the impact of future peripheral development in those villages , and not just peripheral development on the edge of York , although of course we acknowledge that as an important consideration and it is for that reason that we fully supported the County Council 's proposals in relation to greenbelt , erm you asked the question earlier in relation to the P P G advice and and the six criteria , erm in fact I 've already rehearsed that argument in my submission so I wo n't repeat it now , erm the fact that you chose to phrase the question that way I 'll take as a good omen as to the way I presented my submission , but it it it 's there for you to read again , the the the main point that I want to address is something that was raised by Mr Wincup yesterday , and that was the difference or not as between Selby district and Hambledon district , er M Mr Jewitt 's made reference earlier to his opposition to the new settlement , and in doing so he he he mentioned the settlement pattern in Hambledon district , he 'll correct me if I 'm wrong , but one of small dispersed villages , well in Selby district we do have villages of that nature , but the Northern part of of Selby district is significantly deferent to Hambledon , it 's characterized by much larger villages , and in fact the establishment of a new settlement would n't conflict with with the settlement pattern at all . |
| 9 | Let me take as a telling example the facts regarding human sexual dimorphism . |
| 10 | There is one immediate step that Serbia could take as a clear sign that it wants peace . |
| 11 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 12 | They wish to create a general atmosphere of distrust of the measures we have taken and will take for the further democratisation of the country . " |
| 13 | This means that ‘ The French system of detailed target planning involves … the toleration of agreements between firms to fix the share each will take of the planned expansion ’ ( Cohen , 1969 , pp. 71–2 ) . |
| 14 | For many people , disbelief in God is the closest revenge they can take against a manipulative parent . |
| 15 | ‘ And how long did this operation take under the old screw-jack system ? ’ |
| 16 | It means , for instance , that you can not announce the whereabouts of major political figures in advance which makes your presentation via the media even more crucial : sometimes they are the only people you can take into a particular venue . |
| 17 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 18 | SMP machines will take until the fourth quarter . |
| 19 | consider that in certain circumstances one would expect laterality scores to correlate with overall accuracy scores , they favour the use of an index of laterality that is independent of accuracy in the sense that the values which the index might take within the total range of values possible is not " constrained " by any given level of accuracy . |
| 20 | The nature of the Guidelines can be illustrated by taking some examples : The Guidelines also set out various features intended to indicate the position which a particular injury should take within the suggested brackets . |
| 21 | Any deep-seated grubs will take in a lethal dose as they bite their way towards the surface , and the treatment will prevent reinfestation , provided it is thorough . |
| 22 | Newman waited , heard her take in a deep breath . |
| 23 | We could take in a huge dose of it and it would n't harm us one tiny little bit . |
| 24 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |
| 25 | ‘ For a start , there are no private landlords now who would take in a 22-year-old mother with five young children . |
| 26 | Manager Ray Hankin and chief scout Barrie Geldart will take in an Under-19 game at Nottingham this afternoon and a Northern League game at North Shields tonight . |
| 27 | You 'd take in an incapable because if he fell in the roadway , he might get run over . |
| 28 | My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not . |
| 29 | You can take in the flower-filled countryside and cities , the traditional an colourful folklore festivals , the museums , the parks , zoos and nature reserves . |
| 30 | You could take in the Hot Ice Show ‘ 93 , with international skaters combining their talents to produce a spectacular ice show for all the family to enjoy . |