Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same applies in Devon , Dorset and Cornwall as Westcountry TV takes over with a two-minute slot explaining the change . |
| 2 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 3 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 4 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 5 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 6 | The lottery will create at least 52 new millionaires each year , and possibly more if the weekly draw takes off in a big way . |
| 7 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 8 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 9 | However , it is not unusual to see pilots take off towards a heavy rain shower on a good soaring day instead of waiting until it has passed . |
| 10 | Prototype materials were tried out in these schools with the help of field curriculum workers ( mobile teacher trainers whose story we shall take up in a later chapter ) and later refined and distributed in final form to a further eight hundred schools with a similar scale of supervision , in the hope that these would serve as a nucleus in each state for further dissemination to other schools . |
| 11 | Erm right so the we agree to delegate to the F and G P the of the existing lease and the taking on of a new lease underlease for the coffee room , tea room operators . |
| 12 | By lunchtime the tongues were really wagging and talk of LBOs , MBOs , an imminent sale of the management consultancy business as well as a bid featuring Bob Jacobi , formerly head of Ted Bates ( the US advertising agency Saatchi took over after a bitter battle three years ago ) were all fuelling the share price . |
| 13 | As a kid at Oldham , I took over from a long-established fixture in the side at Boundary Park , Peter McDonald , and had most of my mistakes during games forgiven because I was so young . |
| 14 | Nenad Bucin did not rescind his resignation , but in accordance with constitutional provisions Momir Bulatovic , the president of the Montenegrin presidency , took over in an acting capacity as Montenegro representative on the Collective State Presidency . |
| 15 | He was the first Roman Catholic director-general of the BBC , taking over at a difficult time , when the Ulster issue was posing serious dilemmas for broadcasters as well as for politicians . |
| 16 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 17 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 18 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , Hastings Pier was packed on Friday for Splash ( rechristened by one DJ present as ‘ the all-England gurning contest ’ ) , Saturday 's country house alldayer near Bournemouth was generally acclaimed , while on Sunday night London 's Strut finally took off with a full turn-out for guest DJ Danny Rampling . |
| 20 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 21 | Nor were they in Europe , where it took off in a big way as the cult movie of the moment , especially in countries where the dire American dialogue could be dubbed over or subtitled with more viable prose . |
| 22 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 23 | Loss of control taking off on a windy day |
| 24 | The villas also possess refrigerators which operate at a volume level slightly below that of a Hercules transport plane taking off with a full load . |
| 25 | If the glider gets wet before taking off for a high climb , the airbrakes may freeze up and become unusable . |
| 26 | New sub-disciplines are taking off at an extraordinary rate , associated in particular with the integration of computer systems into society 's systems of communication , management and finance . |
| 27 | He took out of a thick envelope a sheet of thick paper . |
| 28 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 29 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 30 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |