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 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 4 | When the child takes the occasional mouthful she can smile and praise but otherwise no attention should be given to the food refusal . |
| 5 | the meeting takes the wrong direction by cutting across existing organizational strategy |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One should add that Buckley takes the Christian myth for granted , as backdrop to the discourse . |
| 8 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 9 | ‘ Homeopathy takes the holistic approach and deals with diet , health , mental and emotional state of the patient as well as their particular symptoms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | JO TAKES THE HIGH ROAD |
| 15 | Much of the women 's art takes the given map and redrafts it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Joseland moves from blind side flanker to the second row and with skipper Jones not available Fison takes the inside centre berth |
| 18 | NQUE TAKES THE ALTERNATIVE UNIX-ON-WINDOWS APPROACH |
| 19 | As soon as a woman takes the dominant role , that is when things start to go wrong . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ralph Fiennes takes the hunky Heathcliff role in a story of love , passion and vengeance set in the wilds of Yorkshire . |
| 22 | The geochronological scale takes the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at 540Myr ago and the Ediacaran faunas as 580–560Myr ago . |
| 23 | A simple example of this calling takes the following form |
| 24 | Thus , whereas for Jakobson the " poetic function " co-exists in any given utterance with the " referential function " , de Man takes the poetic function as the sole function , not only of literature , but of language in general . |
| 25 | Lewis takes the free kick himself it was n't a good one dropped in short and was headed away by Gemmell to Black who releases it first time trying to set Collimore free . |
| 26 | In a profile in the latest issue of New York 's Vanity Fair magazine , Mrs Clinton takes the astonishing step of naming Mr Bush 's alleged former mistress . |
| 27 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 28 | The argument that the dependent status of elderly people has been deliberately structured by the state and society takes the economic conditions of the non-institutionalized elderly as being at the root of their dependent status . |
| 29 | In the case , however , of a mandatory life sentence for murder ( into which category all the present appeals fall ) the minister of state takes the judicial view into account but does not necessarily adopt it as the tariff . |
| 30 | ‘ Close Encounters ’ on D-Zone by BASSIX takes the familiar motif from the Spielberg favourite , bleeps it up and sets it on top of a busy , almost cluttered , house tune . |