Example sentences of "[adv] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can , I think , readily see that a therapist who is exclusively concerned with individual patients and the remedying of their neurotic conflicts will tend to perceive the whole issue very much from the individual 's point of view and will merely take the cultural setting as a given datum against which the neuroses of his patients are played out . |
| 2 | I shall not necessarily take the hon. Gentleman 's figures on the disabled as being correct , but I shall certainly make inquiries of British Coal to find out what the position is , and I shall write to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better take the old bastard back . ’ |
| 4 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 5 | Despite the panegyric on the Soviet state published in L'Humanite following the adoption of a new constitution in June 1936 , and despite the great international prestige enjoyed by the Soviet Union during 1937 , consequent upon its material support for Republican Spain , Nizan could no longer take the future strength and stability of the USSR for granted . |
| 6 | A processor on the train would match that information with the train 's performance , and the brakes could be applied if the driver did not take the required action . |
| 7 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 8 | It does not take the actual bankruptcy of a corporate which has issued a bond to adversely affect the bond 's value — a leveraged takeover bid , or the threat of one ( euphemistically known as ‘ event risk ’ ) will do almost as well . |
| 9 | ‘ The vast majority of dog owners are responsible , but it is those few who do not take the necessary responsibility for their dogs that can cause very real problems for everyone . |
| 10 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |
| 11 | Promotion above the rank of governor did not take the successful aspirant out of his own service into a vaster bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Alix , I regret to say , did not take the Civil Service seriously as a prospect . |
| 13 | But he had indicated , on his appointment as vice-president last spring , that he would not take the traditional route to the presidency as he would be retiring from OUP during 1993 . |
| 14 | But she adds that past hazards to workers making contraceptives and detergents are a warning : ‘ In the past employers did not take the proper precautions . |
| 15 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 16 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 17 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 18 | An abatement notice specifying these works would not be invalid , but should planning permission be refused and further action be taken to obtain compliance with the notice , the Justices need not take the local authority 's advice and order the defendants to implement those works , but if they do , and planning permission is again refused , the defendants may be able to avail themselves of the defence of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ , under s.95 , leaving the local authority to find alternative means to seek abatement of the odour . |
| 19 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 20 | The iron-sprung bed can not take the sudden impact and extra weight . |
| 21 | The nurse brings to the relationship a maturity which permits toleration of frustration if , for example , a patient is not at home when she makes a house call ; or if a patient does not take the prescribed medication ; or removes a dressing or falls out of bed . |
| 22 | She was telephoned in the early hours of the morning about stories in newspapers and yet dare not take the communal telephone off the hook in case any of their families became ill during the night . |
| 23 | But such analyses do not take the discursive power of historical and social relations seriously enough . |
| 24 | For that extra special celebration why not take the Royal Suite arrangement at the SAS Royal Hotel . |
| 25 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 26 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 27 | It may just be an extremist minority within a minority that would take offence , but one company told PEN it would rather just take the easy way out and not have pigs . |
| 28 | If it was me I 'd just take the bloody thing out and have a look at it . |
| 29 | Do n't just take the basic subject today . |
| 30 | ‘ Secondly , let's just take the educational side of things . |