Example sentences of "[noun] take the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Policeman Bob Walker took the individual honours from peg one returning 9lb 15oz . |
| 3 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 4 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 5 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 6 | Alaw Bennett Humphreys and her husband , Gareth , and Huw Alun Roberts take the leading roles in a Welsh adaptation of a Ray Cooney play , Allan o Drefn ( Out of Order ) . |
| 7 | As its name suggests , Monospar had undertaken the development of a wing built round a single strong Warren girder spar , braced by a pyramidal system of tie rods to take the torsional loads . |
| 8 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 9 | Male scientists , both science students and mature , professional scientists , tend to be emotionally reticent , disliking overt emotional expression in others and themselves , and depending upon their partners in personal relationships to take the emotional initiatives . |
| 10 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 11 | Zhukov took the four snaps , examining them closely . |
| 12 | To understand the significance of their involvement , however , and the direction in which republican influence took the civil rights movement , it is necessary to examine carefully the political strategy of the republicans in the mid-1960s . |
| 13 | In the little time that remained , plans for Germany were made , and no doubt farewell visits took the three friends by now-familiar routes to the beach at Kilve , to Holford Combe and Hodder 's Combe , and far into the hills . |
| 14 | It will be necessary to batten the ceiling to take the new boards . |
| 15 | The diagram shows the second transfer tool taking the three stitches from right to the three empty needles at the left . |
| 16 | The RSUs provide some former Special Hospital patients with further assessment and rehabilitation to enable eventual resettlement in the community , but at present there are insufficient places to take the large numbers who could benefit . |
| 17 | R.S. designed its relocation package to take the financial considerations out of moving so that the staff could make their work/career decisions without worrying about the costs of relocation . |
| 18 | In a slightly rewritten form due to Rydberg the frequencies v are given by the formula unc where n takes the integral values 3,4 c is the velocity of light and A is a constant called the Rydberg . |
| 19 | NQUE TAKES THE ALTERNATIVE UNIX-ON-WINDOWS APPROACH |
| 20 | There was no one about except Miss Lofthouse taking the dead heads off the daffodils in the churchyard by the War Memorial . |
| 21 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 22 | Knowing that BRM 's 1.5-litre V8 engine had been superior to the Climax , Rudd took the existing proportions to create an engine twice as big and with two crankshafts . |
| 23 | As the ground war began in the Gulf , INSPIRAL CARPETS took the Moo-nited States of America by storm , bringing their brand of psychedelic pop to the West Coast home of organ music . |
| 24 | Axelrod took the 63 strategies and threw them again into the computer to make ‘ generation 1 ’ of an evolutionary succession . |
| 25 | By learning to let the sufferer take the full consequences of the use of addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 26 | Thus this set of arguments takes the four roles of women — wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers — and elevates the first two for special treatment and recognition . |
| 27 | Annadale started well as Jim Campbell took the 1500 metres in 3.47.37 , just ahead of club mate Dermot Donnelly who won the B event in 3.47.43 . |
| 28 | First of all it 's the , the finding out erm how best you can prevent one , and then when you 've found that out trying to persuade people to take the necessary measures to make themselves less vulnerable . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like to see the best refs take the best games . |
| 30 | Even though I ca n't find that button to take the other ones off . |