Example sentences of "[conj] take [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct investment : the inflow of foreign investment directly into UK enterprises ( as when Ford , a UK company , builds a new plant in the UK or takes over a UK firm ) and the investment of British firms in foreign plants |
| 2 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
| 3 | In their work the TECs may either influence or take over the careers service ( Farley 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Most mixed economy interventions involve the state in subsidizing or taking over the organization of necessary economic activities unprofitable for capital ; and most welfare policies can be understood as attempts to socialize labour costs falling on businesses , which become financed out of general taxation instead of showing up directly in employers ' wage bills and production costs . |
| 5 | She 's half-turned away , hanging up or taking down a dress from a hook . |
| 6 | Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . |
| 7 | It will then excavate a burrow , or take over a rabbit hole ( ousting the occupant if necessary ) . |
| 8 | With the national and strategic interest of the United States as part of its more elevated terms of reference , the CIA would co-opt DEA informants at will or take over a DEA operation that suited its purpose or use the DEA as a cloak for its own interests or activities without much regard for the lesser claims of law enforcement . |
| 9 | Also provided always that will not be obliged to assist with or take over the conduct of any proceedings which are principally based upon allegations of negligence , breach of contract , or other acts or omissions by , nor will be obliged to indemnify in the manner set out in this clause in relation to any such proceeding ; |
| 10 | Family breakdown is common and there are a large number of single parent families , with the result that many grandparents share in or take over the upbringing of their grandchildren and behave as parents to them . |
| 11 | We have arranged a special offer : Country Living readers will be admitted free on presentation of the first page of this article ( or take along the March issue if you do not wish to cut your magazine ) . |
| 12 | A second point is that any company that takes over the satellites would want to sell the data to private individuals and organisations around the world . |
| 13 | Finally , there 's a batch of useful utilities and a program that takes away the boredom of formatting floppies . |
| 14 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect that takes up a lot of your time ? ’ |
| 16 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 17 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 18 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 19 | It is the car that took on the Rocket and won . |
| 20 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 21 | which we certainly were n't doing , were we , in the last last year er review and the mechanics of the fax service we already thought that took up a lot of hours you know just putting , faxing them through , receiving them |
| 22 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 23 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |
| 24 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 25 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 26 | Michael 's front garden was beautiful with stock , beds of sweet William and marigolds that took greedily the sun from the other flowers — pansies , roses and lilies . |
| 27 | Young Stuart Duncan is back in action after his career was put on hold following a serious knee injury last Christmas and Malone are still hoping that former Irish Schools ' star Scott Kirkpatrick remains at home rather than taking up an option to return to the States . |
| 28 | I always will be , ’ claiming that taking on the pop funk sound of the moment was a perfect fulfilment of punk 's evangelist logic . |
| 29 | For just £15 you can give them a set of springs that take just an hour or two to fit under each key and make the keyboard so much bouncier . |
| 30 | Those that take up the service , and of course we all know in the school meals service that the take up figures are very low . |