Example sentences of "[noun] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words . |
| 2 | Boxing : Stretch takes the short cut to victory |
| 3 | First , do their goals take the Great Commission seriously ? |
| 4 | The Habsburgs took the Turkish threat more seriously than Matthias had done . |
| 5 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |
| 6 | To Barth , this could only indicate that Bultmann was in effect taking the same path as their nineteenth-century forefathers . |
| 7 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 8 | Near it , Scott took the British flag from under his clothes , and put it up . |
| 9 | In December 1988 Gorbachev took the United Nations by storm and wrongfooted the American administration , then impotent during the hand-over of power from Reagan to President-elect George Bush , by announcing a unilateral reduction of 10 per cent in Russia 's conventional forces . |
| 10 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 11 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 12 | Policeman Bob Walker took the individual honours from peg one returning 9lb 15oz . |
| 13 | Blending the bizarre with the familiar , Butlin took the established model of the British Holiday Camp by the scruff of the neck . |
| 14 | Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault . |
| 15 | Realizing that they had a fight for Naval survival on their hands , the Admiralty took the unprecedented step of ‘ going public ’ to win support of opinion-makers , politicians , industrialists , and Commonwealth representatives in London . |
| 16 | Charlie Swan , rider of Montelado , completed a first-day double when Fissure Seal took the American Express Gold Card Handicap Hurdle Final . |
| 17 | The following day the shepherd took the golden cask foot to a goldsmith , who confirmed that it was genuine gold and bought it immediately . |
| 18 | The Vauxhall HPC Seven is so powerful that Caterham took the unusual step of offering a high performance driving course in the price of the car ( between £18,200 and £23,000 ) , compulsory for the under 25s . |
| 19 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 20 | Eddery took the Listed Prix Massine on Matador , trained at Marlborough by Roger Charlton . |
| 21 | They were glad to rest briefly , the sun warm on their backs , while Mister Johnny took the old horse 's head and led the cart a little farther along . |
| 22 | The department took the largest slice of the Government 's budget and each year the Treasury demanded economies . |
| 23 | It seems that , with the hint of campaigns in unspecified areas , with no details of the number of applications , the Department took the unusual step that we are discussing — an unusual one on its own admission . |
| 24 | Richard took the offered mug of coffee and sat . |
| 25 | All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools . |
| 26 | Shiona took the long way back to Loch Lomond , via Perth and Comrie and Loch Earn , stopping for a meal at a wayside hotel , then heading south via Glen Dochart just after nine o'clock . |
| 27 | Similarly the debate at the circumcision feast was an affair particularly religious in nature , and at it the Mufti took the chief seat , even over such a distinguished , but more " temporal " , colleague as the kadi of the newly conquered city of Istanbul , Hizir Bey . |
| 28 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 29 | Corbett took the faded leather dog 's collar out of his wallet . |
| 30 | Early stage shows saw them recreating the famous Iwo Jima flag-erecting ceremony , while the cover of their great ‘ One Nation Under A Groove ’ album took the American flag to new psychedelic heights , the red , white and blue coloured in all manner of drug-crazed hues . |