Example sentences of "[pron] takes [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 2 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 3 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans . |
| 4 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 5 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 6 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 7 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 8 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 9 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 10 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 11 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |