Example sentences of "[verb] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 2 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 3 | and they tried to take the bloody ticket off me . |
| 4 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 5 | However , we want to take the right action , and to do so properly and comprehensively . |
| 6 | But the north London giants will have to fight off a bid from Everton who want to take the bustling hit-man to Merseyside . |
| 7 | Akram said : ‘ I did n't need to take the new ball before tea because the old ball began to swing . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll need to take the second right after those lights , dear . |
| 9 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 10 | As the only boat in Division C she wins that but is also expected to take the joint C and D prize . |
| 11 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 12 | ‘ The motivation has to come from within and he also needs to take the right approach when he 's away from Anfield , ’ he added . |
| 13 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 14 | Any parish that wants to take the impending discussion on women 's ordination with real seriousness and responsibility will want to make this booklet widely available . ’ |
| 15 | Any parish that wants to take the impending discussion on woman 's ordination with real seriousness and responsibility will want to make this booklet widely available . |
| 16 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 17 | The crayons can be sharpened in an ordinary sharpener as long as it 's designed to take the thicker pencils or crayons . |
| 18 | As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa . |
| 19 | She seemed almost prepared to take the good doctor 's part in this dispute , thought Robert . |
| 20 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 21 | The North London firm plans to take the open systems market by storm with a range of ready-configured , built-to-order UnixWare workstations and client-server systems that will heavily undercut Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 22 | Students wanting to take the new course live out of college , serving in local areas , learning by doing — they work in housing estates or inner city areas under the direction of the tutor and they go to Spurgeon 's two days a week for lectures , seminars and tutorials . |
| 23 | They showed signs of wanting to take the whole operation over , but Coffin , backed up by his Inspector , would have none of it . |
| 24 | It may well be that the rise in UK candidates wanting to take the Foreign Languages for Industry and Commerce ( FLIC ) examination is a positive response to the challenge of an increasingly open Europe . |
| 25 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 26 | It was MGM that seemed to take the whole business most seriously . |
| 27 | Trailing 2–1 after the foursomes Ireland never really threatened to take the four points they needed from the singles . |
| 28 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 29 | The selected garnet had to be split and then shaped to fit the cells and patterns ; alternatively , the cells may have been shaped to take the pre-cut garnets . |
| 30 | Mr Major must be a man with a beleaguered mentality — not thinking particularly straight , tending to take the wrong decisions . |