Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 2 | We have seen how structuralism showed increasing signs of unease concerning the nature of discourse about literature , and we noted the solution proposed by Barthes , namely that discourse about literature should take the form of the discourse of literature . |
| 3 | The added danger is that turning east instead of west will take a lost party deep into the wild region and away from help , with no prominent features on the hill to help make them realise their error . |
| 4 | The report recommends that the Ministry of Agriculture should take an active role in preventing unnecessary loss of farmland to development , and explore ways of finding more non-agricultural uses of rural land , as well as encouraging a reduction in the intensity of agricultural production . |
| 5 | It is therefore often wise to pitch such descents , which of course can take an eternity . |
| 6 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 7 | Such consumption of lithosphere can take the form of either subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate capped by continental crust or the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a second oceanic plate . |
| 8 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 9 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 10 | There will be three dumping grounds : o A labyrinth of concrete-lined tunnels 300 m below ground will take the majority of the nuclear waste — 67 000 drums — that contains large amounts of plutonium-239 and-240 and americium-241 . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State could take the necessary steps to give people a 100 per cent . |
| 12 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 13 | Combining paracetamol with methionine , as Bray suggests , may not be the answer , but surely the manufacturers of paracetamol should take a more responsible attitude by at least placing a more specific warning of the effects of overdose on the packaging . |
| 14 | Communication skills … the products of study of history can take a variety of forms . |
| 15 | This was a thoroughly enjoyable tournament for which Eric Jan Berendsen of DIOK must take a large slice of credit and it was also superb as an August pre-season appetizer . |
| 16 | With only four models in operation ( and of course in reality there are many more ) this kind of mismatch can take no fewer than twelve possible forms . |
| 17 | Another degree of restriction might take the form of a bequest . |
| 18 | All these methods are ways to reduce the amount of data captured , do n't forget than a 5″ by 4″ black& white photo scanned with 64 levels of grey will take a theoretical 1.35M of storage . |
| 19 | The search for goodness could take the new hero into academia and out again , despairing of its false intellectualism and its established assumption that to be intelligent is only and always to be an intellectual . |
| 20 | For all these reasons and more , a magazine like Esquire can take a rightful and relevant place in their lives . |
| 21 | Twin rooms with terrace will take an extra put-you-up bed for a child under 11 . |
| 22 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 23 | Remember that a unit which takes 25% casualties from shooting must take a panic test , and the bigger your unit the more casualties it will be able to sustain before having to test . |
| 24 | Rather , they imply that to accelerate any material object up to and beyond light-speed would take an infinite amount of energy and would therefore be impossible . |
| 25 | Pressing ABORT from the log on page will take the user back to VMS . |
| 26 | She saw the blow coming , but hampered by Poll could take no avoiding action other than to turn her head slightly on receiving it . |