Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 2 | James took on the rather unglamorous task of editing the party paper , ‘ The Nation ’ and , almost single-handedly , established the paper 's reputation and prestige throughout the West Indies . |
| 3 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |
| 4 | Khalid bin Muhammad al-Anqari took over the hitherto vacant portfolio of Higher Education , and was replaced as Minister for Municipal and Rural Affairs by Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Hasan al-Shaikh . |
| 5 | She took up the already damp towel and swathed herself in it . |
| 6 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 7 | The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems . |
| 8 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 9 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 10 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 11 | One further simplifying approximation is often made : recognising that all rates of change are commonly slow compared with the optical cycle time ( and the wavelength , one can reduce the Maxwell equation to first order ( slowly varying amplitude approximation ) , and also take out the rapidly varying part of P21 setting . |