Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , the Buyer agrees to take the goods in their current state , after having satisfied himself by inspection , as to their quality and fitness for the purpose for which the Buyer requires them . |
| 2 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 3 | Remains are scanty and conjecture has to take the place of evidence . |
| 4 | WORRIES over what the election result will bring make contracts designed to take the risk out of risk investment increasingly popular . |
| 5 | Michael Stewart moved to take the place of Patrick Gordon Walker , Wilson 's choice as Foreign Secretary , who had twice failed to secure the necessary seat in the House of Commons . |
| 6 | We had a centre-half called Kitchen who specialised in sliding tackles designed to take the winger and the ball into touch . |
| 7 | They are well-endowed with pockets : two zipped at the back ( giving double thickness to the seat ) , one of which has a side opening to take a map but too narrow for an OS map . |
| 8 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 9 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 10 | Labour want to take the shadow of gloom away . |
| 11 | Here , after all , was a President prepared to take the economy seriously and to begin the long process of hauling it back into some semblance of order . |
| 12 | Turner 's Automatic Points were installed at the Robin Hood junction , and cars coasted to take the corner for Anerley , but continued under power for the straight road to Penge . |
| 13 | It 's the English that vote Thatcher into power again and again and the Scots seem to take the brunt of it . |
| 14 | It was perfectly respectful , but suggested he found the clergy slow to take a point . |
| 15 | A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses . |
| 16 | But the players were singing in it afterwards and Dowie managed to take a tenner off Bingham ; he had bet the manager he would score a goal . |
| 17 | The vast majority of readers chose to take the option of voting for two favourite animals , but those few who voted for just one ( which was then counted twice in the tallying up ) tended to favour the elephant , specifically the African elephant , followed by tiger , otter and pig . |
| 18 | A slice of raw potato placed over a bruise helps to take the blue-blackness out . |
| 19 | Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state . |
| 20 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 21 | It is clear that in each area of revolt , some local figure emerged to take the lead , and this is hardly surprising when one considers the nature of fourteenth century society . |
| 22 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 23 | Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing . |
| 24 | When Peter Green left , Kirwan and Spencer remained to take the mantle , neither of whom really possessed the ability or motivation to do justice to their new-found roles . |
| 25 | However , the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections . |
| 26 | He sacked Terry Butcher as manager last January after the former England defender refused to take a cut in his £250,000 salary . |
| 27 | Intelsat plans to take the capacity as a stop-gap while it awaits delivery of 10 new birds over the next four years . |
| 28 | A DRUNKEN night out among friends ended with a nightmare journey for the taxi driver hired to take the group home . |
| 29 | The buyer opted to take the car as it was . |
| 30 | Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time . |