Example sentences of "[conj] we take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It apologised for his distress , adding : ‘ We have recently re-staffed the Middlesbrough office and although we take great care in choosing recruits , unfortunately occasionally people do let you down . |
| 2 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 3 | That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts . |
| 4 | My right hon. and hon. Friends must take stronger action in concert with our European partners to show the world that we take this situation much more seriously than many people in Yugoslavia seem to think . |
| 5 | Could I ask that we take any questions at the end of session . |
| 6 | The spokesman said : ‘ I can assure Mr Grainger that we take these sort of allegations very seriously indeed and the matter will be thoroughly investigated . ’ |
| 7 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 8 | You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely . |
| 9 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 10 | ‘ At the Roman Soprintendenza we hold the role of the restorer in very high esteem , and we take full account of our restorers ’ periodic reports on the state of conservation of works in our museums ’ . |
| 11 | We make every effort to provide information for donors about how their donations are used and we take positive steps to seek donors ' views . |
| 12 | We can " walk " a large distance across " animal space " , and our move will be plausible provided we take small-enough steps . |
| 13 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 14 | Until we take that look , the behaviour of the atom or photon is not a reality : it is only one probability among many . |
| 15 | Indeed , if we take that conversation , as it unfolds , as constantly changing and renewing its own context , then the relationship just described must be constantly changing as well . |
| 16 | Well you know , if we take that scripture seriously , |
| 17 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 18 | So if we take five minutes . |
| 19 | However , if we take eleven years to the date of writing ( 1978–89 at Table 5.3 ) , we find that , while job losses were concentrated in manufacturing , they were again widely spread within it . |
| 20 | Yet if we take all elections held under the Triennial Act in the twenty year period from 1695 , including by-elections , we find that only nineteen constituencies avoided a contest altogether . |
| 21 | If we take good Y as the numeraire , and there is a mark-up m i , in sector i , then the price equations , with constant returns to scale , are . |
| 22 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 23 | If we take British world title winners by decade from 1892 onwards to the present , the picture that emerges not only refutes the hungry fighter theory , but suggests that better living standards produce more world champions than poverty does . |
| 24 | If we take reciprocal altruism seriously , method ( ii ) might conceivably operate in animals , although not in the case of age queues ; methods ( i ) and ( iii ) could not . |
| 25 | If we take some diesel down when we go , |
| 26 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 27 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 28 | If we take this point of view , it seems that we will gain a better understanding of the history of what is usually called standard English , because we will be able to separate out those issues that primarily involve the development of standard ( prescriptive or codified ) norms from those that do not . |
| 29 | If we take this quotation at face value , it is very difficult to see what possible set of physical circumstances could serve to falsify it . |
| 30 | Thus , a mechanistic system is closed and an organic system is open to the environment If we take local government as an open system we can see that inputs from the environment will include the following : |