Example sentences of "[adv] take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 2 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 3 | A male , after some preliminary hoots , suddenly takes a flying leap at one of the huge plank-like buttresses that radiate like fins around the base of some tall forest trees . |
| 4 | Matrix sampling is also used , such that each student only takes a small part of the total battery of tests . |
| 5 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 6 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 7 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 8 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 9 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most phone lines can only take a total REN of 4 , so a phone plus the Ascom would be the limit . |
| 12 | Craigievar Castle too has special problems in that it is a tower house and can only take a limited number of visitors at any time . |
| 13 | It would only take a certain kind of eyelashes or a whiff of one particular aftershave and I would be sick with love . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but we could only take a certain amount of weight . ’ |
| 15 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 16 | In this case the motherboard replacement is n't as clear cut a winner and it would only take a slight change , such as not being able to use the RAM , to make it look even worse . |
| 17 | The entries in some columns of the database views are restricted to only take a predefined set of values . |
| 18 | The entries in some columns of the database views are restricted to only take a predefined set of values . |
| 19 | This can be annoying sometimes because jobs that would only take a little while can often take a lot longer . |
| 20 | Then , out of breath , he 'd realised it would only take a quick word with the girl at the desk to find out . |
| 21 | I could perhaps take a little bit of paper like that and I 'd find |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 24 | But if anyone should try to get the better of Jimmy Dick , they 'd better take a lengthy piece of cutlery with them . |
| 25 | Having lost some of the true Christian Scientist 's sanguinity about money and the faith that good Scientists should be able to demonstrate prosperity , she suggested faintly that Harriet had better take a secretarial course and equip herself to earn what she called a hat allowance , by which she meant a living . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better take the old bastard back . ’ |
| 27 | Certainly it was she , rather than her husband , whom scholars praised for such discernment , and she who apparently took a personal interest in the literary side of her son 's education . |
| 28 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 29 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 30 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |