Example sentences of "be [verb] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account . |
| 2 | The selected garnet had to be split and then shaped to fit the cells and patterns ; alternatively , the cells may have been shaped to take the pre-cut garnets . |
| 3 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 4 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 5 | If you 're going to take the positive square root . |
| 6 | Stella had been told to take the following morning off . |
| 7 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 8 | Interest was needed to obtain any office , but all too often it was also required to rise in rank thereafter , and something more than the ‘ ability and character ’ mentioned by Scott would be needed to take the junior clerk to the headship of a department . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | MOTHERWELL Civic Hall is a long way from Las Vegas , but when Gary Jacobs defends his Commonwealth welterweight title there tonight against Donovan Boucher , the Canadian champion , he will be aiming to take the international spotlight from old stagers like Lloyd Honeyghan and Kirkland Laing . |
| 11 | Many people in Solidarity thought the communists should be left to take the tough measures needed to clear up the mess they themselves had created — and pay the electoral price . |
| 12 | She played with the choices during the remaining days allowed her , knowing in her heart that she would be forced to take the safe path into the civil service . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | If your training contract starts in 1994 , you will be required to take the Professional Skills Course which will cover the areas of accounts , investment business , personal work management , professional conduct and advocacy . |
| 15 | As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Apart from marches , CND fuelled their anti-cruise campaigns with demonstrations around the bases that were scheduled to take the new missiles . |
| 18 | If there are indeed older American values of the Truman and Eisenhower era , the people who hold them are suspicious of posturing blowhards , influencing public policy without being forced to take the hard choices that government requires . |
| 19 | The girls were required to take the Official Secrets oath . |
| 20 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 21 | The crayons can be sharpened in an ordinary sharpener as long as it 's designed to take the thicker pencils or crayons . |
| 22 | Most of it 's going to take the easy way short cut |
| 23 | Unless Major and the Hurd can neutralise it , the Government 's credibility is set to take the full force of the shock wave . |
| 24 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 25 | It 's a strange journey Paul Weller 's made , but stranger still is that he 's managed to take the greater part of his audience along with him . |
| 26 | Potential customers are advised to take the utmost caution when buying second-hand furniture . |
| 27 | The results confirmed his diagnosis and after he had written a report for Jack 's own GP transport was arranged to take the patient home to rest . |
| 28 | The famous horseshoe-shaped radiator was seen taking the chequered flag at Le Mans , Brooklands and Silverstone . |
| 29 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 30 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |