Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 2 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 3 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 4 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 5 | Monitors frequent both Oriental and Australian regions where they take many forms , including the giant Komodo Dragon on the Indonesian island of that name . |
| 6 | However , they are less obviously to be seen in the academic community as a whole than in the discrete disciplinary sub-cultures , where they take different forms ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 7 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 8 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 9 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 10 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 11 | All right , so I took full responsibility for the organisation of the sale , but there is no way I can be blamed for the outcome . |
| 12 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 13 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 14 | I see , so you take that top wheel off and you have another one underneath where alternative reading |
| 15 | So you map it onto the tuple array and then all the tuples so you take each tuple in in order . |
| 16 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 17 | It apologised for his distress , adding : ‘ We have recently re-staffed the Middlesbrough office and although we take great care in choosing recruits , unfortunately occasionally people do let you down . |
| 18 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 19 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 20 | Even the boys at Fourth do n't like people shooting off the heavy stuff , although they take most things in their stride . |
| 21 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 22 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 23 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 24 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 25 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 26 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 27 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 28 | All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green . |
| 29 | If I took First B. Mus. at the College I could go to Oxford and take Second B. Mus. there , and afterwards write my Exercise — as that was financially possible for them . |
| 30 | So , I had a look at the powers of the police authority and they 're restricted to financial and administrative responsibilities and if I took that argument further , of course the Chief Constable has to take that into account . |