Example sentences of "[noun] takes the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 2 | In some cases it is also hard to measure scheme cost , eg where aid takes the form of tax concessions . |
| 3 | Koons takes the photograph in his hand and smiles impishly , looking every bit the boy-next-door in his Reeboks , jeans and button-down shirt . |
| 4 | Anwar suggests that immigration from Pakistan takes the form of a chain , with early settlers reporting back on their experiences and encouraging others , particularly family and friends , to follow them . |
| 5 | All Fine Craft Design units are project-led in years one and two and student-led in year three , where one of the units takes the form of a dissertation . |
| 6 | If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve . |
| 7 | Peter Cracknell takes the wheel behind BMW 's 518i and Mercedes ' 190E 1.8 |
| 8 | And if B 's violence takes the form of assault with a deadly weapon , A may even inflict death if his own life is in peril . |
| 9 | I 'm Christabel King and these were the headlines : Boris Yeltsin wins crucial vote to become President of the Russian Federation ; the I R A kills two Australian tourists in the Netherlands , and the opposition takes the lead in Burma 's elections . |
| 10 | The main research data from the study takes the form of the recorded discussions of the students . |
| 11 | This data takes the form of a cross-section in one year to show the average wage in each of the age groups , so 44 year-old men for example earn about twice the wage paid to men aged 20 . |
| 12 | The reproach takes the form of ‘ But you said you knew ’ in the case of ‘ I know ’ . |
| 13 | Where the business association takes the form of a partnership , a writ or originating summons can be served on any one or more of the partners ; at the principal place of business of the partnership within the jurisdiction on any person having at the time of service the control or management of the partnership business there ; or by sending a copy of the document by post to the firm at that principal place of business . |
| 14 | For example , if the proposed route of the march takes the participants past an embassy or a particular factory against whose occupants the organisers wish to protest , the prescription of a different route or terminus may obviate the whole point of the demonstration , and amount to in effect a disguised ban . |
| 15 | The monastery takes the form of an open square in which the two churches stand . |
| 16 | It is strange how all movement in the universe takes the form of waves , from the tiny vibrations within the atom and microscopic organisms to the electric pulses in the brain , the waves of the sea , the throb of sound itself , light waves , radio waves , the pulses of force between galaxies , etc . |
| 17 | Similarly , in ‘ The Rise in Coals ’ Corvan takes the tune of ‘ The Mistletoe Bough ’ , an early nineteenth-century ‘ gothic ’ ballad mixing melodrama and sentimentality , and puts it to words describing a situation of real emotion for working people : a rise in the price of household coal during the coldest weather of the winter ( Ex. 1.9 ) . |
| 18 | The second part of the manuscript takes the form of two elaborate alphabets illuminated by Hoefnagel with colour borders on both recto and verso . |
| 19 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 20 | I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person . |
| 21 | OUTLOOK takes the format of a style magazine but leaves out the hype and trivia . |
| 22 | Winner Strega takes the shade in her own ‘ hangarette ’ . |
| 23 | It characterises capital instruments as a means of raising finance : an instrument may be within the definition whether or not the consideration given for its issue takes the form of cash . |
| 24 | What do you think about the Nouveau Realistes , the creators of the Surrealist Object , whose work takes the idea of the object as its point of departure ? |
| 25 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Much of SAVE 's work takes the form of responses to Mayday calls from local people concerned about the imminent loss of a local landmark . |
| 27 | Practical work takes the form of projects which explore design problems using specific software tools . |
| 28 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 29 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 30 | Square Mile : Stock Exchange takes the bull by the horns |