Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 2 | And , it 's only if this committee decides to take a hand in pushing environmental issues forward , that they will actually come about , except , almost by accident . |
| 3 | As the general secretary of the CISL put it , ‘ In the years 1965–66 , especially , a process of rationalization in the industries caused serious tensions to arise and was the cause of a new awareness of the problems of working life , this process having taken the form of a balance of forces highly unfavourable to the worker ’ ( Reggio , quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 520 ) . |
| 4 | Governments of all persuasions have always bought in some services , but this Government have taken the process further . |
| 5 | It is good that this union has taken the trouble to prepare this report with so much E C legislation in the pipeline . |
| 6 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |