Example sentences of "[noun] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 2 | The overriding benefit , however , is its readiness to take the long view . |
| 3 | As its name suggests , Monospar had undertaken the development of a wing built round a single strong Warren girder spar , braced by a pyramidal system of tie rods to take the torsional loads . |
| 4 | Revised interest factor tables used as ready reckoners by tax offices to calculate repayment supplement and interest on overdue tax have been published by the Inland Revenue to take the revised interest rate into account . |
| 5 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |
| 6 | The Cabinet Reshuffle : An ambition to take the hot seat |
| 7 | good mind to take the bloody thing back . |
| 8 | I mean , let's face it , I 'm in a no-win Situation , and quite honestly , I 'm so stuffed up to here with the whole Stupid mess that , I can tell you , I 've just Got a good mind to take the quick way out . |
| 9 | He had earlier fought with the naval armoured car brigade which landed at Walfish ( now Walvis ) Bay in South-West Africa and helped Gen Botha to take the German colony . |
| 10 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 11 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 12 | Male scientists , both science students and mature , professional scientists , tend to be emotionally reticent , disliking overt emotional expression in others and themselves , and depending upon their partners in personal relationships to take the emotional initiatives . |
| 13 | Many modern composers have avoided repetition , allowing the words to take the whole burden of form , carrying the music forward in an interminable wandering from one emotive crisis to another . |
| 14 | PC Chandler ‘ phoned his station in Valpy Street , and called for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Royal Berkshire Hospital . |
| 15 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 16 | It will be necessary to batten the ceiling to take the new boards . |
| 17 | Curval hesitated a moment , then turned back , reaching across DeVore to take the sealed slide from the microscope , handling it with extreme delicacy . |
| 18 | It must be for the lender to take the responsible decision . |
| 19 | The size of the sewer may be of insufficient capacity to take the additional effluent from the proposed development , or the capacity of the sewage works itself may be insufficient to cope . |
| 20 | Bentham was willing , however , on the basis of his version of the command theory of law to take the heroic step of denying that the common law was law . |
| 21 | The denial of the importance of freedom of speech by the Chief Justice in Duncan v. Jones suggests that it is open to the constable to take the surest means to prevent a breach of the peace , and can take whatever steps he chooses . |
| 22 | I did n't go into this line of work to take the easy option every time things get rough . |
| 23 | Stephen Cross ( Wirral ) produced a national standard throw of 57.00m to take the under-17 javelin title , with Peter Johnson ( Sefton ) confirming his place at the ‘ national ’ with a throw of 56.04m in the senior competition . |
| 24 | Failure to take the right step at the right time leads to deception or inadequacy . |
| 25 | The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house . |
| 26 | It is common practice for workers to take the spare pack home to peruse — the bureau that assigns time to a worker specifically for reading is rare ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 28 | It must now be a matter of top priority for hauliers to take the best insurance advice available on the risks being run and the cover available for operations by road and sea to mainland Europe . |
| 29 | The RSUs provide some former Special Hospital patients with further assessment and rehabilitation to enable eventual resettlement in the community , but at present there are insufficient places to take the large numbers who could benefit . |
| 30 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |