Example sentences of "[coord] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Does lazy , for example , mean the person arrives late every day , or takes an excessive lunch break , or never volunteers for anything , or lies about with his eyes closed half the time ? |
| 2 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 3 | Under the censorship rules in force throughout the 1930s , they would not have been able to cast aspersions on a foreign power , tackle the relations between capital and labour , or take an irreverent view of the army . |
| 4 | Not returning calls , or taking a long time to do so . |
| 5 | It removes the pernicious , if subconscious obsession with calendar age , which precludes some of us from learning new things , or undertaking new tasks , or taking a new interest in the world around us . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Like jogging , or taking a brisk swim . |
| 7 | This ‘ tri-axial ’ feature makes sawing in tight corners or taking a few millimetres off the bottom of a fitted door very easy work . |
| 8 | This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action . |
| 9 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 10 | Giant freckles , called chloasma , sometimes appear on the face or neck in sunlight if you are pregnant or taking the combined Pill . |
| 11 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 12 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 13 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 14 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 15 | It was often more rational for the cattle owner to accept the loss , or to take a different course of action . |
| 16 | ‘ Night or day , give or take a hundred feet , right on the spot . ’ |
| 17 | Spend the afternoon exploring the many shops and galleries , or take a leisurely boat cruise . |
| 18 | Either traverse right until just right of the arête , then boldly straight up on small holds to an easing in the angle and protection , or take a lower traverse across the wall until it is possible to work back up and leftwards to join the direct way at the protection . |
| 19 | The more obvious solution is to invest your money with an insurance company , as mentioned above , or take a personal pension . |
| 20 | Or take a little water with it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We either dig up the countryside to meet growing aggregates consumption on roads , buildings and other major civil engineering projects , or take a decisive step towards a more sustainable society ’ . |
| 22 | Or take a houseless pair |
| 23 | The argument he used was still being used in the time from which I came , give or take a little rodomontade . |
| 24 | The lunch hour is like a time warp — give or take a few price increases . |
| 25 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 26 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 27 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 28 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 29 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 30 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |