Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 2 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 3 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 4 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 5 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 6 | Hendry rallied after the break , winning four of the next five frames to trail 7-6 , but his countryman steadied to take the next two frames and seal victory . |
| 7 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 8 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 9 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |