Example sentences of "[noun pl] take the [adj] [noun] " 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 | First , do their goals take the Great Commission seriously ? |
| 3 | All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , many referees take the easy option and give a simultaneous score decision . |
| 6 | As its name suggests , Monospar had undertaken the development of a wing built round a single strong Warren girder spar , braced by a pyramidal system of tie rods to take the torsional loads . |
| 7 | Male scientists , both science students and mature , professional scientists , tend to be emotionally reticent , disliking overt emotional expression in others and themselves , and depending upon their partners in personal relationships to take the emotional initiatives . |
| 8 | Many modern composers have avoided repetition , allowing the words to take the whole burden of form , carrying the music forward in an interminable wandering from one emotive crisis to another . |
| 9 | This effect was more pronounced in rats taking the high phosphate diets . |
| 10 | In the little time that remained , plans for Germany were made , and no doubt farewell visits took the three friends by now-familiar routes to the beach at Kilve , to Holford Combe and Hodder 's Combe , and far into the hills . |
| 11 | Its promoters took the extreme step of running independent Conservative candidates in by-elections . |
| 12 | The danger of swallowing can be minimised if companies take the tender offer route — buying minority stakes which still enable them to exercise some control , and still share costs in areas such as research or marketing . |
| 13 | Power-planers take the hard work out of planing . |
| 14 | Mullicking Tyre : The Incomers Take the High Road |
| 15 | The High Elves take the Blighted Isle . |
| 16 | Certain lizards take the spiky defence trend a major step further , with long , sharp spines growing out of their scaly skins . |
| 17 | Circuit engineers take the mutual inductance invariably positive and denote the direction of the induced voltage by a dot in the circuit diagram . |
| 18 | Yet in Victorian Britain the alliance of wealth and birth formed in the public schools infused sport with a new idealism whilst simultaneously segregating the élite from members of the lower classes taking the same form of exercise . |
| 19 | The difficulties encountered by workers taking the generative approach has led to the search for alternative techniques . |
| 20 | Instead , the dealers took the short-term view , judged that Clinton 's credibility would suffer , and began selling . |
| 21 | The ants take the sweet honeydew and , in exchange , protect their ‘ herds ’ of aphids from predators , such as ladybirds and hoverfly larvae . |
| 22 | The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house . |
| 23 | It is common practice for workers to take the spare pack home to peruse — the bureau that assigns time to a worker specifically for reading is rare ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 24 | The social system is based on a hierarchy within which the most dominant individuals take the greatest share of food . |
| 25 | It must now be a matter of top priority for hauliers to take the best insurance advice available on the risks being run and the cover available for operations by road and sea to mainland Europe . |
| 26 | The RSUs provide some former Special Hospital patients with further assessment and rehabilitation to enable eventual resettlement in the community , but at present there are insufficient places to take the large numbers who could benefit . |
| 27 | Of fungi , spores , hyphae and spore bodies are eaten by a wide range of invertebrates and fleshy spore bodies soon become infested with maggots ; snails rasp them ; beetles lay their eggs in them ; carrion-and dung flies take the foul-smelling slime of phalloids , while tortoises , rats , pigs , deer , macaques and probably other large mammals , in the Malay Peninsula at least , also eat them . |
| 28 | The first Gothic writers took the easy way . |
| 29 | Myles took the tall silk hat from his head and the stick from his hand , but when he offered to take off his overcoat , Father Poole waved him away . |
| 30 | As the ground war began in the Gulf , INSPIRAL CARPETS took the Moo-nited States of America by storm , bringing their brand of psychedelic pop to the West Coast home of organ music . |