Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " . |
| 2 | Level Three , on the other hand , is an entirely different kettle of fish as Rambo , strapped into the seat of a stolen tank , single-handedly takes on the entire Soviet Army . |
| 3 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 4 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 5 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 6 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 7 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 8 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 9 | Charing Cross — should take on the relocated Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals |
| 10 | Simultaneously , the His15 and Arg17 side chains of HPr would separate and the active centre would take on the strained open conformation ( Fig. 2 a ) , ready for the next cycle ; formation of hydrogen bonds to His15 and Arg17 would help to stabilize the open conformation and the protein would be in an overall energy minimum . |
| 11 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 12 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 13 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
| 14 | And so , depending on what you want to do on nine o'clock on Monday morning , you would take out the required floppy disc , put it in your computer , take out your data disc , which you would also have kept , put that in the second floppy disc unit , and you 'd be ready to run that particular application . |
| 15 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | An Oxford bedsit is home for the philosopher who took on the Czechoslovakian secret state . |
| 17 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 18 | We took over the entire eighth floor of the Grosvenor House Hotel , had a suite each , turned one bedroom into a VIP lounge , another into a Space Invaders arcade for Davis and yet another into a private cinema for Tony Meo to watch Rocky films . |
| 19 | In his second capacity , as heir of Warwick 's public role , Gloucester took over the major royal offices which the earl had held in the north . |
| 20 | In his second capacity , as heir of Warwick 's public role , Gloucester took over the major royal offices which the earl had held in the north . |
| 21 | They took over the Gothic Domenican Church of St Salvator and that of St Clement around the corner , and gradually accumulated a huge parcel of land here . |
| 22 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 23 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
| 24 | Her impression of a bleak , high-ceilinged room was confirmed when she entered : the hall took up the top two storeys of the three-storey building . |
| 25 | He was formerly the general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union , though ( like Citrine ) he had had to resign his union post on taking up the new managerial appointment . |
| 26 | He took out the small stoppered jar of poison and Foreman 's eyes rounded in surprise . |
| 27 | Zeinab added to his unease by opening her handbag , taking out the three small bottles of perfume and dropping them deliberately on the floor . |
| 28 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 29 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 30 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |