Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words . |
| 2 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 3 | First , do their goals take the Great Commission seriously ? |
| 4 | During the May and June protests journalists took a leading part in demanding greater freedom of the press , and sympathetic reports of the pro-democracy movement briefly appeared in newspapers and broadcasts . |
| 5 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 6 | In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government . |
| 7 | Earthquakes took a high toll , as at Turnovo , and some of the more famous examples , like Rila Monastery , near Sofia , have been rebuilt much later ( see Volume 4 ) . |
| 8 | Leicester fans taking every single vantage point they can around the ground . |
| 9 | NEW ZEALAND off-spinner Dipak Patel captured a Test best 6–113 as the Kiwis took a first-innings lead of 106 over Zimbabwe , bowled out for 219 in Bulawayo . |
| 10 | All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools . |
| 11 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 12 | Last season 's Nat West Trophy finalists took a firm grip on their Benson and Hedges semi-final by reducing Lancashire to 119 for three from 39 overs at lunch . |
| 13 | Last season 's Nat West Trophy finalists took a firm grip on the game by reducing Lancashire , finalists twice in the last three years , to 119 for three from 39 overs at lunch . |
| 14 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 15 | The back struts take an unusual approach by ‘ stepping over ’ the centre-strip , instead of cutting through it . |
| 16 | Beige popsters take a vicarious pride in the slow baptism of fire that their chosen genre and its protagonists underwent . |
| 17 | New Zealanders really do scrummage and referees take a liberal view of the metre and a half law . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , many referees take the easy option and give a simultaneous score decision . |
| 19 | In late September the Council approved a list of 109 candidates , while requiring 60 other candidates to take a written test to establish their credentials as mujtahids ( those qualified to interpret the Koran and to issue judgements ) . |
| 20 | I 'm quite sure she did n't believe a word of this , but in Oxford it is considered good manners to take an adversarial position so as to generate an interesting conversation and allow both parties to display their intelligence , knowledge and eloquence . |
| 21 | Most UK walkers take a little while to adjust to the scale of high mountain routes . |
| 22 | Media columns , in which journalists take a critical look at themselves , seem to be conveniently missing from the Namibian press . |
| 23 | Media columns , in which journalists take a critical look at themselves , seem to be conveniently missing from the Namibian press . |
| 24 | This is not so easy of course , because some schools take a negative view of pregnant schoolgirls and school-age mothers , and also girls themselves may be extremely loathe to set foot in any school again . |
| 25 | The percussive nature of some of the playing and ‘ rat-at-tat ’ rhythms sometimes suggest Prokofiev ( the pianos take a fair bashing ) , and at various points Messaien , Villa-Lobos , and Ligeti came into my mind . |
| 26 | A special menu is offered for children , a nd some bedrooms take a fourth bed . |
| 27 | Some bedrooms take a third bed . |
| 28 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 29 | Accidents involving carbon monoxide or other poisoning or anoxia ( possibly associated with cabin pressure failures ) are other obvious cases in which the pathologists take a leading place amongst the investigators . |
| 30 | The Agent has , therefore , decided to encourage Great Indian Peninsula railwaymen to take a greater interest in such matters by the institution of a competition under the rules of which first , second and third prizes of Rs. 150 , Rs. 100 and Rs. 50 respectively will be awarded annually for the best station platform gardens and premises . |