Example sentences of "[conj] we take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned .
2 It apologised for his distress , adding : ‘ We have recently re-staffed the Middlesbrough office and although we take great care in choosing recruits , unfortunately occasionally people do let you down .
3 In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people .
4 That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts .
5 My right hon. and hon. Friends must take stronger action in concert with our European partners to show the world that we take this situation much more seriously than many people in Yugoslavia seem to think .
6 Could I ask that we take any questions at the end of session .
7 The spokesman said : ‘ I can assure Mr Grainger that we take these sort of allegations very seriously indeed and the matter will be thoroughly investigated . ’
8 Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track .
9 Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously .
10 You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely .
11 It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused .
12 ‘ At the Roman Soprintendenza we hold the role of the restorer in very high esteem , and we take full account of our restorers ’ periodic reports on the state of conservation of works in our museums ’ .
13 We make every effort to provide information for donors about how their donations are used and we take positive steps to seek donors ' views .
14 We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’
15 Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once .
16 In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning .
17 No Epigas screw-in cartridges are available other than in Grenoble , and we took enough meths for the Trangia .
18 There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it .
19 And we took those floors out cos they were recent and and we put these arch braces back in again using the pattern that .
20 We can " walk " a large distance across " animal space " , and our move will be plausible provided we take small-enough steps .
21 Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march …
22 Until we take that look , the behaviour of the atom or photon is not a reality : it is only one probability among many .
23 until we took that train
24 I you know if we took that course as an example and wh what would
25 Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat .
26 In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world .
27 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
28 Indeed , if we take that conversation , as it unfolds , as constantly changing and renewing its own context , then the relationship just described must be constantly changing as well .
29 Well you know , if we take that scripture seriously ,
30 Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure .
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