Example sentences of "takes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 2 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 3 | The council says it would welcome the chance to expand on the submission when the inquiry takes oral evidence . |
| 4 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 5 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 6 | The Unit has 26 academic staff and takes full-time PhD students . |
| 7 | In the steepest , wettest areas , stock-rearing takes complete precedence , and little , if any , arable farming is undertaken . |
| 8 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 9 | To deal with this , a steady traffic of lorries takes solid waste from the plant to the nearby Drigg dump . |
| 10 | Objectification describes the inevitable process by which all expression , conscious or unconscious , social or individual , takes specific form . |
| 11 | She takes little exercise , does not even walk much , and prefers to use the car or public transport . |
| 12 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 13 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 14 | It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved . |
| 15 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 16 | After Strichen , Banff , where verification of their visit takes little time ; a plaque on a wall reads : ‘ Site of the Black Bull Inn visited by Johnson and Boswell , 1773 ’ . |
| 17 | This stage takes little time after pauses , L1 originals , and the resource person 's voicings have been edited out . |
| 18 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 19 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 20 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 21 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 22 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 23 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 24 | A stable , or resilient world , at another extreme , takes little notice of our presence . |
| 25 | While the Dutch government is actively planning to reduce the number of hospital beds , particularly those for long-stay patients , it takes little notice of the reality of mental health care in The Netherlands , cherishing various misconceptions regarding institutionalism and community care . |
| 26 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 27 | He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like . |
| 28 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 29 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 30 | However , this idealized picture takes little account of reality . |