Example sentences of "[Wh pn] take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 2 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 3 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 4 | It 's God who takes that initiative to withdraw from seeking you . |
| 5 | Well that th this is why I put the memo that if it 's rejected by the tractor driver who takes that trailer out , |
| 6 | It is extremely important that the princess , who takes great interest in Scotland , will be here to grace the occasion . ’ |
| 7 | And even if she had cried out , who takes any notice of anyone shouting , even screaming ? |
| 8 | It is illustrated by Rowlandson who takes evident delight in depicting the encounter of the gentry with peasant life ( Fig. 26 ) . |
| 9 | Any member of the secret society who takes public office or joins the police should declare they have taken the Masonic oath to counter , he told MPs . |
| 10 | In most cases it is not the jury who takes this decision but the prosecution , who , with the judge 's agreement , accepts the defendant 's plea of guilty to manslaughter under section 2 . |
| 11 | Anyone who takes this line confidently must surely understand more about the mentioned objects and contents than was conveyed above . |
| 12 | They are offering a brilliant 15% discount to everyone who takes this month 's copy of Hairflair into their salons . |
| 13 | On the whole for someone who takes some interest in serious music it was a worthwhile and memorable experience . |
| 14 | There was no stopping Scottish Amicable team A comprising Jim Hill ( now Aberdeen branch ) , Graeme Cowie ( now Edinburgh branch ) and Lorna Caird ( redundant ) who took first place with the highest total team score . |
| 15 | ‘ They tried everything to unnerve him but he remained so cool , ’ said Mr Kinnear , who took great pride in the fact that Wimbledon , now safe from relegation , are the first side to score three times at Anfield this season . |
| 16 | Despite his flair and populism , he was a cautious man who took great comfort from the fact that his son had not become a footballer but was securely settled in the middle class as a solicitor . |
| 17 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 18 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 19 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 20 | And who took that decision ? |
| 21 | who took that decision ? |
| 22 | I wonder who took that poster what that they had ? |
| 23 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |
| 24 | For the next Test , starting at Hobart on Friday , Peter Sleep , the veteran leg-spinner , has been called into the squad at the expense of Geoff Lawson , who took one wicket in this Test . |
| 25 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 26 | Those four-footed mercenaries must have met someone else who took better care of them because they never returned . |
| 27 | Ray Hankin , who took temporary charge when the team were heading towards the Fourth Division , was the first applicant . |
| 28 | " It being desirable and natural that the Association should be governed solely by bona fide deaf members , it was felt that it would be an act of selfishness to ignore those " hearing friends " who took real interest in the cause and welfare of the deaf ; yet apprehensions were felt as to the wisdom of adopting such a course . |
| 29 | In the Channel 1 class the leading boats from last weekend 's Beaufort Dyke Off-shore Race should feature strongly including the J Class Jacana owned by Maurice Flowers of Ballyholme Yacht Club , the race-winner and Roy Hamilton 's Commanche Raider from Carrick Sailing Club who took second place last weekend . |
| 30 | But the report also blasts authority bosses for failing to control the activities of 58-year-old Mr Watney , who took early retirement last year . |