Example sentences of "the [noun] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you will eventually get the opportunity to take as Mike has maybe already told you , get eventually get the opportunity to take the audio tour yourself , so you can see where things are . |
| 2 | The CO took the next trip , to Nordhausen on April 4 , but on this occasion carried an eighth crew member who acted as a second pilot . |
| 3 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 4 | Lack of any firm action by the police even led the Board to take the whole issue to the High Court . |
| 5 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 6 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 7 | This is the moment when the contestants take the solemn oath at the altar of Zeus to abide by the result of the race ; only the altar is not shown — in its place stands the god himself . |
| 8 | THE decision to take the Five Nations trophy to Paris before Saturday 's match , strongly criticised by some sections of the English media , was fully vindicated after an exhilarating display by the French . |
| 9 | Sid slowly allowed the scales to take the full weight of the fish . |
| 10 | Learn from them the strength to risk to say no to the disease : refuse to cover up , tidy up or pay up but allow the sufferer to take the full consequences of the addiction . |
| 11 | By learning to let the sufferer take the full consequences of the use of addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 12 | The driver took the little engine and the two men looked at it silently , not speaking for several minutes . |
| 13 | and that , I said go to the Tavern I said does n't matter whether you see the cottage take the little puppy for a walk . |
| 14 | The Habsburgs took the Turkish threat more seriously than Matthias had done . |
| 15 | The following day the shepherd took the golden cask foot to a goldsmith , who confirmed that it was genuine gold and bought it immediately . |
| 16 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 17 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 18 | Similarly the debate at the circumcision feast was an affair particularly religious in nature , and at it the Mufti took the chief seat , even over such a distinguished , but more " temporal " , colleague as the kadi of the newly conquered city of Istanbul , Hizir Bey . |
| 19 | The department took the largest slice of the Government 's budget and each year the Treasury demanded economies . |
| 20 | It seems that , with the hint of campaigns in unspecified areas , with no details of the number of applications , the Department took the unusual step that we are discussing — an unusual one on its own admission . |
| 21 | Realizing that they had a fight for Naval survival on their hands , the Admiralty took the unprecedented step of ‘ going public ’ to win support of opinion-makers , politicians , industrialists , and Commonwealth representatives in London . |
| 22 | Many modern composers have avoided repetition , allowing the words to take the whole burden of form , carrying the music forward in an interminable wandering from one emotive crisis to another . |
| 23 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 24 | Mullicking Tyre : The Incomers Take the High Road |
| 25 | " How did he and the Lab take the new appointment ? " |
| 26 | It will be necessary to batten the ceiling to take the new boards . |
| 27 | The sand took the glittery morning light and threw it back into his eyes like a mirror . |
| 28 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 29 | But let us suppose the reductivist took the epistemological option . |
| 30 | The denial of the importance of freedom of speech by the Chief Justice in Duncan v. Jones suggests that it is open to the constable to take the surest means to prevent a breach of the peace , and can take whatever steps he chooses . |