Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or will it be so difficult to interpret , so rigid in its framework that there is no room for the teacher to try interesting diversions and take the opportunity for exploration of unmapped territory — even of contributing to the design of the map itself ? |
| 2 | The gifts were tokens of the wishes of the tribal chiefs and took the form of gold and silver bullion , reflecting their need for more power and prestige , and weapons to gain greater martial success against other tribes in the annual border affrays . |
| 3 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 4 | David 's long fingers plucked carefully at two of the lines , swung them over the outlying strings and took the whole pattern back from her hands to form a new one within his . |
| 5 | A damp wind blew from the west , shaking drips off the high , bare trees and taking the sound of the main road away . |
| 6 | Of greater sophistication are the diffusion or dispersion models which can predict pollution concentrations from emission inventories under varying meteorological conditions and take the topography of the area into account . |
| 7 | He had had no choice but to ignore the whimpering of his hungry children and take the grain to market . |
| 8 | In response , Heraclius " took off his purple … then went he with naked feet and took the Cross , praising God with the shedding of tears " . |
| 9 | For theoretical purposes it is sometimes convenient to think of the average as an ensemble average ; i.e. one considers a large number of identical systems and takes the average of the velocity at corresponding instants over all these systems . |
| 10 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 11 | The great British public , most of whom would have been hard pressed to name three members of the Cabinet of this or any administration , were pre-occupied with chasing the sun in one of the rainiest summers in recent years and took the loss of a junior minister with equanimity . |
| 12 | Mugabe gave the Comrade the opportunity to fulfil one of his long-held ambitions as Romania 's Great White Hunter — to shoot one of Zimbabwe 's increasingly rare elephants and to take the tusks home as a trophy . |