Example sentences of "this [vb mod] be take [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of this may be taken from a context in which it is rather familiar : atmospheric motions on the scale that governs the principal features of the weather . |
| 2 | This should be taken as a message both to the Western allies and the Soviet Union that West Germany 's first concern is the gradual , well-disciplined reform of East German society , not the country 's destruction and its absorption into West Germany . |
| 3 | Terms like ‘ stimulus categorization ’ have to be used , because we do n't have any other language in which to describe what parts of the brain do , but a term like this should be taken as a shorthand for ‘ neural processes that could mediate stimulus categorization , whatever they may be ’ , rather than a conclusive statement about what an area does . |
| 4 | For Bateson the operative principle of democracy is " a balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities , In fact , this might be taken as a most apposite description of his own attempt at building a new consensus for English . |
| 5 | This might be taken as an informative summary . |
| 6 | This could be taken as a minor concession to advertising , except that the explicit statement at the beginning of the book seems related to an exclusion from the first volume of almost all the poems embodying Leapor 's sharpest social criticism . |
| 7 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 8 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 9 | A revised schedule for the development programme has now been agreed with industry and this will be taken into the contract . |
| 10 | The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline . |
| 11 | As we will be dealing with breeding in a later article , this can be taken as a tank for a single specimen . |
| 12 | This can be taken from a plastic bag with a decorative design , or could be just a piece of plain colour cut into a shape . |
| 13 | An example of this can be taken from the recent contraception controversy in the Republic , which began in the 1960s . |
| 14 | The first steps to remedy this can be taken by an LEA prepared to think of its specialist services as a coherent structure . |