Example sentences of "[adj] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This takes developing stages from the gut via the portal system to the liver then via the hepatic vein and posterior vena cava to the heart and from there via the pulmonary artery to the lungs . |
| 2 | This takes medical ideology to an extreme point . |
| 3 | Eagles , with the elements in their favour in the opening half took full advantage , killing the game by building up a 20–0 advantage with the help of two tries from Price and six goals from eight attempts from Aston . |
| 4 | A few took local accommodation but most of us camped in the castle 's magnificent park . |
| 5 | CONCURRENT TAKING FINANCIAL ADVICE |
| 6 | While this took different forms for the Asian and white women involved , nonetheless for all it was the only real economic option . |
| 7 | On the battlefield the English took vast plunder . |
| 8 | The rising created an atmosphere of disorder in which those with grievances felt free to take violent action against their enemies . |
| 9 | Further , the original theory of nationalization put forward by the Attlee Government after 1945 stressed that corporations should be free to take commercial risks in a way that would be inappropriate for government departments . |
| 10 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 11 | Whether one names this position absolutism or relativism may be left to the reader 's discretion , but it is neither the absolutism which ascribes unconditional authority to universal standards ( 'It is wrong to take human life even in self-defence' ) nor the relativism which is neutral between judgements of a particular act ( ‘ You think Hitler was right to massacre them , I think he was wrong . |
| 12 | It is easier to take moral instruction from a character in a book than think it out oneself . |
| 13 | It may make it easier to take tough decisions on tax reform , restitution of property confiscated by communists and local-government legislation . |
| 14 | Salvation could only be sought with a leader who possessed personal power and was prepared to take personal responsibility , sweeping away the causes of the misery and the faceless politicians and bureaucrats who prevail over it , and seeming to impose his own personal power upon the force of history itself . |
| 15 | THE LEADER of the Scottish Prison Officers Association hinted yesterday that his members were prepared to take industrial action against any move by the Government to privatise the prison service in Scotland , writes Eric McKenzie . |
| 16 | They told Mr Adams they welcomed the statement that Sinn Fein was committed to work towards ‘ bringing the conflict to an end ’ and that he was ‘ prepared to take political risk ’ . |
| 17 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |
| 18 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 19 | They both have large planning departments and are prepared to take young people with no previous experience and train them . |
| 20 | This could be achieved if solicitors were prepared to take young people into their offices on a temporary basis . |
| 21 | A few were prepared to take big salary cuts and throw away the security of their present employment — others were just grateful for a job or the chance to work on a national . |
| 22 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 23 | In some cases , where the family is prepared to take special care of their loved ones , I would happily agree to a patient , or rather a writer , going home . |
| 24 | And he made clear that despite the government 's small majority , they would be prepared to take difficult decisions about how to reduce the enormous government deficit . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to me that people who worry about their responsibilities and mind about the consequences of their actions should be prepared to take senior jobs . |
| 26 | Four of the six schools said they would be prepared to take positive steps towards ‘ searching them out ’ . |
| 27 | Only one man , it seems , was willing to take general relativity at face value , and while Einstein and other physicists were looking for ways of avoiding general relativity 's prediction of a nonstatic universe , the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann instead set about explaining it . |
| 28 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 29 | The government even proved willing to take certain industries into public ownership : broadcasting , overseas airways , and the electricity-generating industry . |
| 30 | As the economic conditions in many areas became more desperate and the existing ruling élites seemed less and less able or willing to take corrective measures , radical domestic reform , external aggression and colonial possessions were seen by some of the rural poor as the only positively proposed solution to their ills . |