Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the easiest thing in the world to enter a closed order and have a chit-chat with a monk , who has most probably taken a vow of silence . ’ |
| 2 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 3 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 4 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 5 | And the transformation has not just taken place underground . |
| 6 | Bills are read a first time in the same way as in the case of Government Bills , two weeks after the ballot is taken , and there is consequently little time for any consultation or drafting which has not already taken place . |
| 7 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 8 | However , this redistribution has not yet taken place to any significant extent , with the acute hospital sector managing to preserve its stranglehold upon health care expenditure . |
| 9 | This caution is all the more necessary when we realize that there are varieties in which this change has not yet taken place , more than three centuries later , and that there are yet other varieties in which different changes have taken place . |
| 10 | ‘ He has not yet taken final vows , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 11 | The health council has not yet taken an official position on the board 's proposals , but Mr Tait said that since Arbroath was a popular holiday town , it required better services than that of a cottage hospital . |
| 12 | Expensive litigation is still some way off The whisky has not fully taken its toll . |
| 13 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
| 14 | Now with a soprano who has already successfully taken the role in a revival at the Buxton Festival , Rosalind Plowright , Covent Garden is staging its own new production directed by Mike Ashman with sets by Bernard Culshaw . |
| 15 | Now with a soprano who has already successfully taken the role in a revival at the Buxton Festival , Rosalind Plowright , Covent Garden is staging its own new production directed by Mike Ashman with sets by Bernard Culshaw . |
| 16 | At the city 's Bluecoat Concert Hall , dance has once again taken centre stage . |
| 17 | In writing this I am acutely aware that the energy of commitment fuelled by the gravity of the situation in the Philippines has once more taken a hold of me . |
| 18 | background , I do n't understand that about you 're probably dazzled , you 're probably dazzled by , it might slow down , because de-programming has probably just took the old one , and just made it |
| 19 | It has also now taken the first steps towards setting up a country-wide party . |
| 20 | Councils believe they have been squeezed to the point where services will suffer and jobs are threatened , and that the Scottish Secretary has now virtually taken control of local government expenditure . |
| 21 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 22 | You will become increasingly shifty about the fact that your child has n't actually taken the safety wheels off his bike yet . |
| 23 | However , the fact that the polls seem to indicate that gung-ho reductionism has n't really taken off this time round suggests a significant advance on the Falklands ' spirit . |
| 24 | ‘ No one has yet formally taken action , ’ says chief fund manager Dewitt Bowman . |
| 25 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |
| 26 | He has never really taken off , but keep with him , he has steady sales . |
| 27 | With the slogan , ‘ The Chance of the 90s : Investing in Eastern Germany ’ , it sets out good reasons why other countries should do so — points already apparently taken up by Britain as a major investor . |
| 28 | It appears that human preoccupations and concerns once again took precedence over the interests of non-human animals . |
| 29 | Away goes Lawrence , shirt soaked with sweat , he bowls to who plays well forward taking the bottom hand off the bat and the ball rolls up to Lawrence who does n't field it , it 's Hugh Morris running from short leg , who then hands the ball to Philip DeFreitas , gives it a good shine on his right thigh . |
| 30 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |