Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phased out by 1980 , they used to bridge the gap between the maintained and independent sectors , being grammar schools which took fee-paying pupils but also provided free places for able children from poorer homes who were financed by a direct grant from the government . |
| 2 | In October we launched our new Subscribers ' Club for the many thousands of readers who take Ideal Home on subscription . |
| 3 | In future you take preventative measures . |
| 4 | Although elite theorists have agreed upon the importance of empirically tested research , and their ability to carry it out in a value-free way , in fact this stream of analysis has always been associated with authors who take strong value positions . |
| 5 | The aid itself took various forms : arms and ammunition , including perhaps 1,000 aircraft and 700 tanks ; Soviet and Comintern military — and political — advisers ; and the International Brigades : a total of nearly 60,000 foreign volunteers from all corners of the world , many of them refugees from fascist regimes or veterans of anti-fascist struggles , recruited and trained in the main by Communists . |
| 6 | He showed a particular liking for Richard who took full advantage of the situation , though it caused Edward some uneasiness . |
| 7 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 8 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 9 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 10 | the organization of native pastimes and the promotion of athletic fitness as a means to create disciplined , self-reliant , national-minded manhood which takes conscious pride in its heritage of unrivalled pastimes and splendid cultural traditions as essential factors in the restoration of full and distinct nationhood . |
| 11 | Anita Skinner 's gentle watercolour landscapes — ‘ the creativity of nature requiring no embellishment ’ — find contrast on the upper floor with Kay Ritchie 's work which takes natural themes a step into the abstract with strong use of colour . |
| 12 | In the past 200 years , America has accomplished feats which took other countries years to achieve . |
| 13 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 14 | I took a retirement I took early retirement coming in the |
| 15 | Mothers love squid because it 's good value ( you can eat most of it ) and easy to prepare ( unlike , say raw fish which takes considerable skill . |
| 16 | Within the family it is usually the words and their literal meaning which take primary importance . |
| 17 | Under the last Labour government , the minister of state in the Department of Health and Social Security who took particular responsibility for social security , Mr Stanley Orme , was a Cabinet minister . |
| 18 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 19 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
| 20 | For example , it is not just private organisations and individuals who take legal action against auditors . |
| 21 | The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate . |
| 22 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 23 | Against the backdrop of all this we have Sir Roger Elliot stating in his BA Conference address that ‘ in the last resort a trade association has limited sanctions that it can apply , and if necessary it is for booksellers themselves to take appropriate action ’ . |
| 24 | But in the last resort a trade association has limited sanctions that it can apply , and if necessary it is for booksellers themselves to take appropriate action . |
| 25 | Following criticisms by Hicks and Skea among others , that the system discriminated unfairly against small departments , in particular those with less than five students undertaking Ph D research , NERC has recently announced ( Anon 1990b ) its intention to introduce a weighting factor which takes departmental size into account . |
| 26 | In particular , essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment , then to be subsequently developed within ( for instance ) Romanticism and modernism , have been retrospectively read into the early modern period . |
| 27 | A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel . |
| 28 | Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection . |
| 29 | His becoming a British subject put his Spanish goods at risk , and Oliver Cromwell himself took extraordinary precautions to ensure that they could be spirited out of the country and sent to England . |
| 30 | It belongs to St Anton , Austria 's most established resort , and provides an overnight sleeper service which takes British skiers into the centre of the resort . |