Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , the Buyer agrees to take the goods in their current state , after having satisfied himself by inspection , as to their quality and fitness for the purpose for which the Buyer requires them . |
| 2 | Parliament avoided taking the decision on the acceptance of Théodore , which was necessary for the replacement of the current interim Prime Minister , Jean Jacques Honorat . |
| 3 | Remains are scanty and conjecture has to take the place of evidence . |
| 4 | William Bullock 's description being comprehensive , the writer has taken the liberty of adapting this to include details from the French National Archives . |
| 5 | Davies ' description provides additional information and the writer has taken the liberty to amalgamate those which concern the 6th Work : |
| 6 | An obvious extension of head-counting research involves taking the fact that a TV set is switched onto ITV , and finding out whether anyone is actually in front of it watching it . |
| 7 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 8 | It is the job of conductors to reset the points after their car has taken the junction . |
| 9 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 10 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 11 | Labour want to take the shadow of gloom away . |
| 12 | Here , after all , was a President prepared to take the economy seriously and to begin the long process of hauling it back into some semblance of order . |
| 13 | A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses . |
| 14 | A slice of raw potato placed over a bruise helps to take the blue-blackness out . |
| 15 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 16 | It is clear that in each area of revolt , some local figure emerged to take the lead , and this is hardly surprising when one considers the nature of fourteenth century society . |
| 17 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 18 | Labour had taken the election manifesto of 1983 — the so-called ‘ longest suicide note in history ’ — and rewritten it on the basis of what it thought the people did n't want . |
| 19 | When he looked back , the Punk had taken the woman 's straw hat off and looked as if he might be about to eat it . |
| 20 | The Council 's first President had taken the position extremely seriously , and in addition to his ceremonial duties had invited the Chairman and Chief Officer at regular intervals , often twice a year , to meet with him , to discuss matters of interest to him , and to bring him up to date on the Council 's activities . |
| 21 | Half an hour gone the captain has an injury but his side have taken the lead . |
| 22 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 23 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 24 | Seven minutes later Simpson 's free kick hit the post , it went over the Charlton wall , hit the post with Bolder beaten , and again the chance had gone , but at last on the half an hour United took the lead ; yet another corner , again from the right side . |
| 25 | A DRUNKEN night out among friends ended with a nightmare journey for the taxi driver hired to take the group home . |
| 26 | The buyer opted to take the car as it was . |
| 27 | The formal procedures of the House have not , so far , had to be changed following the introduction of television , and the Procedure Committee has taken the view that , unless a powerful case can be made to the contrary , it is not for the House to adapt to televising . |
| 28 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 29 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |
| 30 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |