Example sentences of "[verb] take the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 2 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 3 | Although SAG has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 4 | Although the SQL Access Group has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 5 | It has taken the best elements from several Dutch schemes the Dutch being recognised as the experts in creating wetland nature reserves . |
| 6 | Thomas has taken the outré directors Oshima and Bertolucci in hand , and presented them in a more ‘ respectable ’ form . |
| 7 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 8 | The crayons can be sharpened in an ordinary sharpener as long as it 's designed to take the thicker pencils or crayons . |
| 9 | As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa . |
| 10 | The North London firm plans to take the open systems market by storm with a range of ready-configured , built-to-order UnixWare workstations and client-server systems that will heavily undercut Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 11 | It may well be that the rise in UK candidates wanting to take the Foreign Languages for Industry and Commerce ( FLIC ) examination is a positive response to the challenge of an increasingly open Europe . |
| 12 | Trailing 2–1 after the foursomes Ireland never really threatened to take the four points they needed from the singles . |
| 13 | The selected garnet had to be split and then shaped to fit the cells and patterns ; alternatively , the cells may have been shaped to take the pre-cut garnets . |
| 14 | Mr Major must be a man with a beleaguered mentality — not thinking particularly straight , tending to take the wrong decisions . |
| 15 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 16 | And you know taking the top jockeys , Scudamore , Dunwoody , Niven , Osborne , McCourt they could all have made a success of whatever they chose to do , I 'm sure of that . ’ |
| 17 | Apart from marches , CND fuelled their anti-cruise campaigns with demonstrations around the bases that were scheduled to take the new missiles . |
| 18 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 19 | If a further shelf is wanted higher up , small holes need drilling to take the mounting studs . |
| 20 | We continue taking the French ships , but they take none of ours . |
| 21 | Option ( b ) could have taken the following forms : ( i ) an attack on the forces/territory of those seeking to obstruct free navigation ; ( ii ) escort activity to defend merchant shipping seeking to exercise the right to free navigation ; and ( iii ) clearing wreckage or mines endangering free passage through Gulf waterways like the Strait of Hormuz . |
| 22 | I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser . |
| 23 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 24 | The therapist pointed out that the changes that had taken place in her life were the result of her having discussed her problems with her family and having taken the necessary steps to solve them . |
| 25 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 26 | It is common practice in this sort of exercise to take the estimated coefficients of the model — its structure — as given and independent of whatever policies are being carried out or considered . |
| 27 | If you have a 2.25 the cost of a new 2.5 head is not economically viable , so the alternative is to have the head machined to take the 2.5 inserts ( ETC 6278 ) at £6.58 each plus VAT and probably £50 to £75 to have the head reconditioned at the same time . |
| 28 | Each marketing response will have to take the relevant contingencies into account , so that ( to use the jargon ) it is situationally relevant . |
| 29 | They must , clearly , try to take the main citadels , and especially Scone . |
| 30 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |