Example sentences of "[coord] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it .
2 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 .
3 Giant freckles , called chloasma , sometimes appear on the face or neck in sunlight if you are pregnant or taking the combined Pill .
4 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 .
5 The accuracy of the figures , give or take the one poll in 20 that might prove to be a ‘ rogue ’ , was now , it seemed , beyond dispute .
6 The time taken to complete one revolution of the Earth is decreasing over aeons of time but at the moment it is , give or take the odd second , 24 hours ; this defines the solar day .
7 The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes .
8 Give or take the odd aircraft kit — including a bigger and better model of the Stealth fighter-bomber — there are few new products hitting the market .
9 Did she turn off on to the single track road across the valley , or take the easy option and drive on towards Villereal ?
10 Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point .
11 He 'll use his ferret to catch rabbits , or take the occasional pike from the river severn .
12 Or take the black cab , designed in the 1950s .
13 Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia .
14 Be aware of potential trouble before you walk into it — if , for instance , there is a group of drunks five hundred yards ahead of you cross over or take the next turning to avoid it .
15 Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants .
16 For example , the two charges may be of some atomic distance ( of the order of 10 -10 m ) apart , whereas we are interested in their effect at macroscopic distances ; or take the so-called dipole aerial where the assumed separation of charges is small in comparison with the wavelength of oscillation .
17 It 's a familiar quandary : buy an affordable production line bass and live with the fact that you share your new baby with thousands of others , or take the handmade option , pay through the nose and bask in the reflected glory of your instrument 's exclusivity .
18 Or take the semantic relation between dog and cat .
19 To reach the farmhouse they could follow the muddy and pit-marked cart track between the fields or take the short cut across the meadow to the little wooden gate at the side of the garden .
20 Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs .
21 Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him .
22 Mitch goes with you and takes the necessary shots , ’ he added firmly , glancing at Mitch .
23 We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective .
24 Most feminists respond by multiplying the female subject , and taking the collective category of ‘ women ’ as a pragmatic basis for their politics .
25 One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work .
26 The genuine regard or respect is demonstrated in building trust , being reliable , and taking the other person 's point of view seriously , whatever one 's personal opinion .
27 His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation .
28 Everyone was clamouring , as they ate and drank and the girls went round the table , serving and taking the finished platters to the sink where Sabina was busy wiping and stacking .
29 When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted .
30 That totals £40 million or , if you take the lowest figure — excluding the ‘ risk factor ’ and taking the lowest endowment figure — £30 million !
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