Example sentences of "[adj] to take [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashdown would not only be brave to take such a risk , he would also be extremely foolish . |
| 2 | Make me understand why you 're willing to take such a risk for the sake of a story . ’ |
| 3 | He has been working well recently and looks sure to take all the beating in an uncompetitive contest . |
| 4 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 5 | observed , almost by way of invitation , at p. 329b : ‘ It may be that the House of Lords will feel able to take such a step but it is my present view that this is a matter for consideration by Parliament . ’ |
| 6 | The departure of Bob Horton was a traumatic event , but Sir Patrick suggests that there was probably no group of people better qualified to take such a decision than BP 's non-executives . |
| 7 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 8 | They used that to take all the muck out then . |
| 9 | We do n't wish to because it is not financially sensible for an organization which is cash rich to take all the money to the bank . |
| 10 | By means of regression it is possible to take such a man back to one of those occasions when his own and his partner 's mutual desires had culminated in a very happy and successful sexual encounter for them both . |
| 11 | By considering what our two examples , the apparently blue sea and the apparently unequal lines , have in common , it is now possible to take this a stage further . |
| 12 | Glasgow and Birmingham are anxious to take all the work for Regional Railways . |
| 13 | He wants to be a county cricketer and he 's ready to take all the help he can get . ’ |