Example sentences of "[noun] takes the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words . |
| 2 | Boxing : Stretch takes the short cut to victory |
| 3 | Taking any test requires commitment ; the black belt test takes the most commitment of all . |
| 4 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 5 | When the child takes the occasional mouthful she can smile and praise but otherwise no attention should be given to the food refusal . |
| 6 | the meeting takes the wrong direction by cutting across existing organizational strategy |
| 7 | The experience curve takes the following form : where y is the average cost calculated over the company 's cumulative volume produced to date , x is the cumulative volume produced to date , a is the cost of the first unit produced , and b reflects the rate of learning . |
| 8 | One should add that Buckley takes the Christian myth for granted , as backdrop to the discourse . |
| 9 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 10 | ‘ Homeopathy takes the holistic approach and deals with diet , health , mental and emotional state of the patient as well as their particular symptoms . |
| 11 | Lincoln takes the opposite view , Lincoln says here is a crisis the person uniquely placed to deal with major crises in American politics is the president and I , Abe Lincoln , stand forward and I 'm prepared to do almost anything if in my judgment it 's necessary to preserve the nation and the constitution . |
| 12 | well I ca n't put a hat on me hair takes the same shape and I take me hat off me hair 's the same shape as me hat |
| 13 | Unless Sir Robert Armstrong takes the unprecedented step of issuing a statement , this will have to remain one of what he has called ‘ the marvels and mysteries of Cabinet government ’ . |
| 14 | In a slightly rewritten form due to Rydberg the frequencies v are given by the formula unc where n takes the integral values 3,4 c is the velocity of light and A is a constant called the Rydberg . |
| 15 | The Lorentz transformation takes the same form for all four-vectors : in the case of the four-momentum we can take the formulae ( 1.1 ) given above for the coordinates and replace x by p throughout . |
| 16 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 17 | JO TAKES THE HIGH ROAD |
| 18 | Much of the women 's art takes the given map and redrafts it . |
| 19 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 20 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 21 | Joseland moves from blind side flanker to the second row and with skipper Jones not available Fison takes the inside centre berth |
| 22 | NQUE TAKES THE ALTERNATIVE UNIX-ON-WINDOWS APPROACH |
| 23 | Today , predictably , the Commission takes the same line , asserting that ‘ an enlarged Community will not be able to function effectively without major institutional change . |
| 24 | As soon as a woman takes the dominant role , that is when things start to go wrong . ’ |
| 25 | But there are clusters of miniature wood puffballs on the tree-stumps , and I find that chewing some of the white flesh takes the elder aftertang away . |
| 26 | If the paper takes the reapplied wash differently than the original one , this is an indication that the sizing has not thoroughly penetrated the papers ' fibres . |
| 27 | The White Paper takes the same approach : ‘ Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 28 | Thus this set of arguments takes the four roles of women — wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers — and elevates the first two for special treatment and recognition . |
| 29 | Ralph Fiennes takes the hunky Heathcliff role in a story of love , passion and vengeance set in the wilds of Yorkshire . |
| 30 | The geochronological scale takes the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at 540Myr ago and the Ediacaran faunas as 580–560Myr ago . |