Example sentences of "[det] took the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Newcastle Gosforth had opted out of their match at Saracens , the fly half took the opportunity to take his points total over 400 when he appeared as a guest for his old club at Middlesbrough on Saturday . |
| 2 | Very few took the position of Ada Nield Chew , who saw clearly how the position of working wives was complicated by their reproductive function , and who believed that women 's sole responsibility for home and children represented the chief impediment to self-fulfilment . |
| 3 | Some took the view that it was essential that English be made less " remote from the living interests of the average adolescent " , A few even attempted to move literary education in the direction of political " confrontation . " |
| 4 | This took the approach that mother and baby health and welfare was what the women wanted , seeing the woman 's main role in society was as a breeder . |
| 5 | This took the issue a giant step forward . |
| 6 | The mere fact that this took the road through a school and a housing estate was of secondary interest . |
| 7 | This took the price back to where it was before Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait last August . |
| 8 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 9 | This took the form of small , specially recruited discussion groups of tea-drinkers . |
| 10 | This took the form of the disintegration of social , political and economic equilibrium , with all the waste that accompanied such a process . |
| 11 | He highlighted the differences by a series of juxtapositions : ‘ over-production ’ versus ‘ goods famine ’ ; ‘ overproduction of grain' versus ‘ under-production of grain' , i.e. , disproportion between production and consumption , but in the capitalist countries this took the form of over-production , in the Soviet Union of under-production , ‘ disproportion between various branches of production ’ etc . |
| 12 | This took the form of masturbation , a mild sort of masturbation . |
| 13 | This took the form of fin display — first by him , then by her . |
| 14 | Highly confidential , but somewhat easily ( deliberately ? ) leaked , this took the form of a memorandum from Labour Leader Neil Kinnock 's Press Secretary , Patricia Hewitt , to London Labour MPs ' Chair Frank Dobson . |
| 15 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 16 | This took the form of a gift of the proceeds from the sale of a hospital farm . |
| 17 | On the other hand was the image , conveyed with increasing frequency by the chroniclers , of the common soldier as a symbol of something to be feared , the perpetrator of violence and destruction , whether this took the form of attacks on property ( pillage and arson ) or on people ( murder and rape ) . |
| 18 | Frequently this took the form of removing men , or sometimes whole families , from the towns for training in agricultural work in organized land settlements . |
| 19 | In School A , this took the form of a plan to relocate the library , but in other project schools plans focused on such things as the development of a video network , the creation of display areas and the development of a careers room as part of the library complex . |
| 20 | This took the form of an artillery bombardment in which 6000 were killed . |
| 21 | This took the form of a central set of routines which looked after all the I/O functions , graphics and peripherals and was intended to remove any need for users to add extra items . |
| 22 | In his biographical criticism this took the form of showing how popular sentiment acting on suggestible minds simplified people into myths . |
| 23 | This took the form of a pack with a set of leaflets on various aspects of transport provision . |
| 24 | This took the form of a lightning-fast front snap-kick , which met the charging Baal squarely on the chest . |
| 25 | This took the form of a Solemn Declaration of European Union . |
| 26 | This took the form of allowing trusts to make a maximum return of 6 per cent on assets , and arrangements to ensure that certain services deemed essential would continue to be provided locally . |
| 27 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 28 | This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics . |
| 29 | These took the steam out of the demand for a national conciliation board and a standard wage , at least for the time being , and there were some advances in the establishment of local machinery . |
| 30 | Commonly , these took the form of monopoly rights , possessed by such early incorporated bodies as the medieval guilds , and later by the overseas trading companies , for example the Merchant Adventurers and the East India Company . |