Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knights naturally took precedence as the leading members of the class , and there is no difficulty about demonstrating that they were also the richest despite the existence of a good many whose incomes fell far short of £200 . |
| 2 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 3 | However , these reactions only take place because of the presence of manufactured chlorine in the stratosphere . |
| 4 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 5 | The ‘ non-demographic ’ ( NDM ) projections only take account of expected trends in crime and the numbers sent to prison ; the ‘ demographic ’ ( DM ) projections also take into account expected changes in the age structure of the general population . |
| 6 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 7 | Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit . |
| 8 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 9 | Old Big Ears soon took advantage , and our canter transitions were a shambles . |
| 10 | The formulae normally take account of the age , movements during the past , expected future movements and estimated scrap values of the stock as appropriate . |
| 11 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 12 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
| 13 | Two of the most famous cars ever to take part in the TT races , Kaye Don 's Lea Francis and Freddie Dixon 's Riley , will be among those taking part . |
| 14 | Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter . |
| 15 | Another leading Forum activist said that last night 's talks , in which the Communists were lead by the politburo member , Mr Vasil Mohorita , and in which the small political parties also took part , could produce a quick agreement . |
| 16 | The politicians ' disapproval would have been sharper still had they been aware of plans already taking shape in the army to launch an actual invasion of mainland France if the regime refused to recall de Gaulle to power . |
| 17 | On Jan. 9 the Syrian-backed Lebanese government recently formed by Umar Karami [ see pp. 37928-29 ] won a vote of confidence in the National Assembly by 37 votes to three , with 27 deputies not taking part in the voting . |
| 18 | This makes it very easy for climbers not to take responsibility for the rubbish they create . |
| 19 | However , in practice , trials rarely take place . |
| 20 | Should planned deliveries not take place , and should usage continue , then eventually a stockout situation will be reached , where , for , the goods in question will be temporarily out-of-stock . |
| 21 | In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ? |
| 22 | Coasting movements also take place , but their exact scale is very difficult to determine in the presence of resident pairs at most coastal watching sites . |
| 23 | The Commission of the European Communities also takes part in the Organization 's work . |
| 24 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 25 | Most coverage of rape trials now takes place in the daily popular press rather than the special interest paper of the News of the World . |
| 26 | The Australians magnificently took revenge for their defeat last time when they had the bronze medal taken away from them , but England were happy to learn that they have a last-eight encounter today with Sweden . |
| 27 | Statutory duties invariably take precedence over other aspects of the work and because of the publicity surrounding cases of child abuse , and the tendency to blame social workers when things go wrong , a disproportionate share of the energies and resources of SSDs is devoted to work with children . |
| 28 | Moreover , this may be why Æthelred 's charters sometimes take care to describe the legitimacy of the way the King had acquired the land being granted away . |
| 29 | And 10 American companies recently took advantage of a more lenient approach to anti-trust policy in the US to form a jointly run Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation . |
| 30 | A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose . |