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 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 .
7 Near it , Scott took the British flag from under his clothes , and put it up .
8 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 .
9 WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving .
10 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 .
11 Policeman Bob Walker took the individual honours from peg one returning 9lb 15oz .
12 Blending the bizarre with the familiar , Butlin took the established model of the British Holiday Camp by the scruff of the neck .
13 Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault .
14 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 .
15 Charlie Swan , rider of Montelado , completed a first-day double when Fissure Seal took the American Express Gold Card Handicap Hurdle Final .
16 The following day the shepherd took the golden cask foot to a goldsmith , who confirmed that it was genuine gold and bought it immediately .
17 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 .
18 Eddery took the Listed Prix Massine on Matador , trained at Marlborough by Roger Charlton .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Richard took the offered mug of coffee and sat .
22 All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Corbett took the faded leather dog 's collar out of his wallet .
26 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 .
27 Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron .
28 Rolling to a new position , Manville took the other headlight .
29 She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets .
30 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 ) .
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