Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confusion also arose when schools took over administrative functions which traditionally had been located in LEAs . |
| 2 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 3 | Second-year units take up specific issues such as nostalgia for lost innocence and order , the literature of political commitment , the relationship between artistic form and cultural change , and the significant emergence of women as producers of literature . |
| 4 | Our eyes take in more information than any other of our senses . |
| 5 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 6 | My little book will have performed -a useful function if it persuades one or two of the best of its readers to take up this career . |
| 7 | Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain . |
| 8 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 9 | This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party , as rival factions take up distinctive stances . |
| 10 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 11 | Two Italian ferry boats took over 800 Albanians back to Durres on June 17 and 18 . |
| 12 | It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances . |
| 13 | As Ardzinba and a group of Abkhaz parliamentarians fled north to Gudauta , the Georgian troops took over major installations in Sukhumi , and Givi Lomanidze , the Abkhazian Interior Minister deposed in June [ see p. 39019 ] , was reinstated . |
| 14 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 15 | Enrolment is the first week of September and the classes take up one afternoon or evening per week . |
| 16 | In some cases atoms take up interstitial positions between the ions in a crystal . |
| 17 | The sum of 10s 0d per week for the new pension was , he admitted , inadequate but it had to correspond with the level of the non-contributory pension ; and such an amount would encourage individuals to take out private pensions . |
| 18 | For instance , some British libraries take out institutional membership with Law notes , to give themselves access to a quick loan service for expensive textbooks in law . |
| 19 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 20 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 21 | It was released in 1990 , and is written in C. Secretary of the British APL Association , Anthony Camacho , claims that J is less complicated as it uses fewer symbols than APL — its syntax analyser takes up only one page of C , while other versions take up enormous amounts . |
| 22 | Males taking on all roles in the home creates healthy role models . |
| 23 | I notice that the Newcastle Journal has the headline ’ North-East bucks the trend with firms taking on more workers ’ , and I am sure that the hon. Member will be delighted that Vickers in his constituency , making the new tank , has excellent opportunities at home and export prospects abroad . |
| 24 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |
| 25 | A series of five Ionithermie treatments taken over two weeks gives optimum results — hips , thighs , tummy , waist and bottom are all trimmed and toned , often with visible body inch loss . |
| 26 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 27 | But the government is committed to the notion of care by the community and wants families to take on greater responsibilities . |
| 28 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 29 | The tragic depopulation of the area by emigration had its roots in the collapse of the ancient clan system after the battle of Culloden in 1746 , and the subsequent ‘ clearances ’ or evictions of small tenants and sub-tenants to make way for much larger tenants to take up extensive sheep farming requiring very little labour . |
| 30 | Debt is cheaper than equity , since investors take on less risk when buying it . |