Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] to take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was now better able to concentrate and better able to take stock . |
| 2 | What a mockery that would make of her insistence that she was independent and perfectly able to take care of herself . |
| 3 | In every case the cancer sufferer seemed to accept their role as victim , to be acquiescent and quite unable to take action . |
| 4 | At a time when the Home Secretary is inviting the Probation Service to ‘ move centre stage in the Criminal Justice System ’ ( NACRO , 1990 , p. 17 ) it may seem misguided and unnecessarily pedantic to take issue with the White Paper 's notion of punishment . |
| 5 | Jerry and I are too frightened and too young to take part . |
| 6 | China was now formulating a tentative 10-year plan , he said , and would present the outline for the eighth five-year plan ( 1991-95 ) to the party 's seventh plenum originally scheduled for September , but now likely to take place in December . |