Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] take [noun] " 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 | So many dog training clubs only take dogs when they are six months old … well past the steep part of the learning curve and often at an age when male dogs , especially , are starting to grow up ( and become as rebellious and resistant to authority as any human adolescent ! ) . |
| 9 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 10 | Old Big Ears soon took advantage , and our canter transitions were a shambles . |
| 11 | The formulae normally take account of the age , movements during the past , expected future movements and estimated scrap values of the stock as appropriate . |
| 12 | Public schools normally take children from the age of 13 ( usually the boys ' boarding schools ) or from the age of 11 . |
| 13 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When this occurs the couriers often take benzodiazepines to stop themselves from getting too ‘ high ’ or agitated , but the outcome is nevertheless often fatal . |
| 19 | But in circumstances where rulers failed to provide the peace thought essential to a Christian society , ecclesiastics sometimes took matters into their own hands . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , in practice , trials rarely take place . |
| 22 | Some parents naturally take turns in distracting or managing the child . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Commission of the European Communities also takes part in the Organization 's work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What is certain is that the Iraqis immediately took Qasr-e-Shirin , also inflicting severe damage on the Abadan refinery and beginning a siege of Khorramshahr which they later claimed , a little prematurely , to have captured . |
| 30 | 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 . |