Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] takes [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 2 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 4 | ABBERLEY : In a part of Greece , a remote part , a man who kills another man takes over the dead man 's wife . |
| 5 | If a guest loses a key card or another guest takes over the room a new key card with new code punch holes is issued . |
| 6 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 7 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine that a little thing like a little torpedo takes up the sound ! |
| 9 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
| 10 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 11 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
| 12 | A more modern , and very thorough treatment is Fudge ( 1984 ) , which is an extremely valuable work on the subject and in many ways takes over the place of Kingdon 's earlier work . |
| 13 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 14 | This implies that in time the antisemitic ideology will disappear , as a young post-war generation takes over the leadership of the far right . |
| 15 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 16 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 17 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 18 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 19 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 20 | But with business concluded , the convention changes gear and , from Thursday on , everyone is in full motley and a gigantic free-wheeling circus takes over the town , with clowns doing their stuff along the esplanade , at the railway station , on the buses , in the streets , pubs , restaurants and takeaways , as well as under the big top and in the conference centre . |
| 21 | New chairman takes up the reins |
| 22 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |
| 24 | A " Space " drama in which each class takes on the roles of the inhabitants of different planets , each of which is in trouble . |
| 25 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |