Example sentences of "[adv] took the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last weekend , however , after rioters looted and burned and smashed , and the army was compelled to escort Banda 's heir apparent , John Tembo , to safety , the Malawi News not only took the extraordinary step of giving a graphic account of the riots , complete with quarter-page photographs , but also accorded Chihana 's court case detailed front-page coverage . |
| 2 | Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points . |
| 3 | I reckon he just took the easy way out . ’ |
| 4 | The reality was that provincial reformers generally took the ideological initiative away from London on this important point . |
| 5 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 6 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 7 | Navigation by the sun and stars almost always took the same course as the tyre-tracks . |
| 8 | He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form . |
| 9 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 10 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson yesterday took the unusual step of revealing the exact cause of Sharpe 's problem to try to end months of speculation about the one-time wonder boy . |
| 11 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
| 12 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 13 | Lindsey quickly took the other woman 's hand in hers . |
| 14 | It was not , admittedly , the most subtle of strategies , but you will appreciate that this particular task , though no doubt important in its way , hardly took the highest priority at that moment . |
| 15 | The best crossbreed was Max , belonging to Beryl Greenslade of Hindhead , who also took the best mover award . |
| 16 | The British also took the small sugar islands of Tobago , Granada , Dominica , and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands at the southern end of the chain of the Lesser Antilles . |
| 17 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors , whatever their political persuasion , to turn out and vote . |
| 19 | He also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors whatever their political persuasion to turn out and vote , a move that reflected unease among the party leadership that , with the polls showing a narrow Labour lead , its supporters might take victory for granted . |
| 20 | The International Chamber of Commerce also took the unusual step of allowing the FBL to use the ICC logo . |
| 21 | Sabally also took the National Defence and Women 's Affairs portfolios previously held by Jawara . |
| 22 | Manuel also took the free kick that led to Gayle 's goal , while Blissett 's 15th goal of the season was a 67th-minute header . |
| 23 | Manuel also took the free kick which led to Brentford 's second in the 18th minute , Gayle sending in a cracker from 18 yards . |
| 24 | It reorganised itself in 1854 , and took an office in Regent Street , and a year later took the important step of appointing as lay-missioner a Samuel Smith , a teacher at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 25 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 26 | With the help of Fred ( later Sir Frederick ) White , Bowen managed to keep the project out of the clutches of the Australian National University ( at one stage he nearly took the whole setup to the United States ) , and he used friends in high places to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations . |
| 27 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 28 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 29 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 30 | Vico and Rousseau simply took the biblical imagery one step further back to a pre-Adamite , non-rational , world of peace and innocence . |