Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short was a child prodigy and the outstanding product of the English chess explosion of the 70s and early 80s which took English chess from the second division to second place only to the former Soviet Union . |
| 2 | As far as awful games go this one takes some beating . |
| 3 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 4 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 5 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 6 | It helps each one to take some responsibility for worship . |
| 7 | I am sure I took great pains with you , alas , but to very little purpose . |
| 8 | Here , as well as an engine house and other works , is Mandale Sough , a drainage channel one mile long which took twenty-three years to dig . |
| 9 | Make sure you take enough tablets — at least one for each night . |
| 10 | In 1964 he took 113 wickets at an average 19.27 ; in a 185-match first class career his 461 victims cost 24.27 apiece . |
| 11 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 12 | Other issues with which I shall not detain the House but which have been mentioned by other hon. Members include the design of motor vehicles , the admirable Which ? survey , the question of insurance and rewarding those who take adequate precautions to secure their vehicles by having the means to immobilise them in case of theft , safety improvements and cases such as those in Swansea , where , for example , the local authority has now put attendants in several of the key car parks . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the hordes beating a path to the pub or the off-licence are simply ignored and sympathy is given to those who take copious amounts of prescription drugs for their " nerves " or for " insomnia " . |
| 14 | But if such a retort is both meaningful and non-trivial , then surely so is the statement ( that might be made , for example , in reply to a request for information from a third person ) that " the chair " being talked about — the " posited chair " — is not fictional , i.e. that it actually exists , even though those who take this statement on trust might find out otherwise to their cost . |
| 15 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 16 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 17 | In an address to a congregation at a Sikh temple on Jan. 10 , the Prime Minister pledged strong action against those who took innocent lives whether they were terrorists or security force personnel . |
| 18 | There were those who took direct action against their tormentors . |
| 19 | Around half of the respondents would have clearly felt more comfortable with the question if the proposed time scale had been 5–7 days , and a great majority of those who took this approach including the vast majority of respondents who used the SPG form — suggested that 7 days would not be unreasonable . |
| 20 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 21 | Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too . |
| 22 | Eliot remarked that as far as he was concerned he took that paper chiefly for the crossword and the company reports . |
| 23 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 24 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 26 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 27 | I brought the boat back from Bilbao in Spain on my own which took five days . |
| 28 | And the other one takes seventy minutes or longer if they wish to examine things . |
| 29 | In 1955 he took 175 wickets , which is still a club record . |
| 30 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |