Example sentences of "[coord] take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital gains tax will not become payable until the original shareholder sells his shares in B ; and if B is formed in a tax haven in which there are no restrictions on loans to directors , he can in fact enjoy the proceeds of the original shares in Company A free of tax until he dies or takes up permanent residence outside the jurisdiction . |
| 2 | When a practice enters new markets , or takes on new clients or unfamiliar types of work , accurate costing becomes even more important than in more conventional activities . |
| 3 | ( a ) and ( h ) preserve the additional period for consuming alcoholic liquor or taking away alcoholic liquor supplied in a closed vessel purchased during the permitted hours introduced by 5.3 of the 1962 Act . |
| 4 | Also confirm connection , or taking over new number . |
| 5 | Proposals for spending cuts totalling 9,000 million kronor ( US$1,660 million ) were put forward on Nov. 5 ; a reduction of value added tax ( VAT ) from 25 per cent to 18 per cent on a range of basic goods and services on Nov. 6 ; reductions in the tax on capital income from 30 per cent to 25 per cent and a similar reduction in the tax on share profits on Nov. 8 ; and the privatization of 35 major state-owned companies in stages from early 1992 onwards and the lifting of restrictions on foreign investors buying into or taking over Swedish companies on Nov. 11 . |
| 6 | Even if you are a very small business or taking on domestic staff you should write a job specification , although you may prefer to make it a more informal list of everything the job entails . |
| 7 | Unless you do something about it you will be losing money — money you could have invested in new equipment , or better marketing , or taking on more employees . |
| 8 | Never before have I had so good a time or taken so little medicine . ’ |
| 9 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 10 | To dispose of surplus or to take up excess capacity in production . |
| 11 | Section 16(2) provides : [ t ] he cases in which a pecuniary advantage … is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — ( b ) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft , or to take out any policy of insurance or annuity contract , or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he is allowed to do so ; or |
| 12 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 13 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 14 | D&B 's Marketing Manager , Philip Mellor , said : ‘ Extreme caution in British boardrooms is reflected in a reluctance by firms either to tie up vital funds in increased stocks or take on new staff . ’ |
| 15 | Undercapitalisation entails risks when such firms carry out eurobond " bought deals " or take on large positions in secondary market trading . |
| 16 | When the text has a reader it ceases to be a mere object and takes on anthropomorphic form ; it has a voice or voices ( the ‘ codes ’ ) , it creates its own history ( the history of the already-read content ) , it ‘ plays ’ , ‘ creates ’ , ‘ lies ’ , etc . |
| 17 | He rises and takes on imaginary partner |
| 18 | Vitapoint 's new oil treatment needs no heating and takes just two minutes to work . |
| 19 | The inner goes up first and takes just four minutes to put up . |
| 20 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 21 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 22 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 23 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 24 | The Complete Knocked Down ( CKD ) option contains all the required parts presorted , and takes about 70 hours to complete , while the Component Form requires only 20 hours of the simplest work to finish the car . |
| 25 | " The Sights of Zurich " gives a good general idea of the city , and takes about 2 hours . |
| 26 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |
| 27 | It is a reasonably steep walk up between the trees and the outcrops and takes about forty-five minutes . |
| 28 | Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration . |
| 29 | Miguel , in pony tail and purple-embroidered shirt , opens his Yamaha synthesiser case and takes out three sets of bamboo pan pipes . |
| 30 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |