Example sentences of "who takes the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mortgagee who takes the title-deeds can not register , and his position as against that of a mortgagee whose mortgage is registrable and registered is at present , for lack of judicial decision , merely conjectural . |
| 2 | ‘ And they get told their riding positions , ’ says Haig who , as Station Officer , is the only one who takes the same position on the fire engine each time it goes out . |
| 3 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 4 | His amusing analysis of human frailty has made him one of the folk world 's more unlikely heroes — a bard who takes the knocks but never shows the bruising . |
| 5 | Who takes the risk , for example , when a nominated subcontractor fails to perform diligently and delays completion of the main contract ? |
| 6 | Mist and fog , snow , spring rain , and summer heat are all attractive and beautiful to the walker who takes the time to look . |
| 7 | I prefer to let the game be fun , with little concern for competition , but sometimes children like to see who takes the shortest number of dives to pick up all the treasure . |
| 8 | BBC Good Food will be there to witness who takes the accolades and we will publish the results . |
| 9 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 10 | ‘ being the driver ’ Driver means the person who takes the motor vehicle on the road and he continues to be the driver until the journey is finished , although he may have stopped and switched the engine off some minutes before : Jones v Prothero [ 1952 ] 1 All ER 434 . |
| 11 | The valuable contribution of the teacher 's aid is , as the name implies , a help to the teacher , but it is the teacher who takes the main responsibility for preparing work in a clear way for all pupils , including those who are visually handicapped . |
| 12 | At the same time the teacher who takes the child into his/her class would be supported by regular visits from an experienced teacher of the deaf . |
| 13 | April saw the appointment of two more deputy prime ministers : Oleg Lobov , who will control the economics ministry ; and Oleg Soskovets , who takes the industry portfolio . |
| 14 | There is then a theological question posed for one who takes the feminist agenda seriously and believes in human equality , as to how this revelation can be a revelation of God . |
| 15 | Who takes the promises of a , a child of immature years and yet erm articulate ? |
| 16 | But who asks these questions , and who takes the decisions that follow from the answers ? |
| 17 | One may ask whether the person who takes the Side of the Other is being inconsistent . |
| 18 | Paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) of the subsection all describe unilateral , though honest , acts of the appropriator , who takes the property for himself and treats it as his own . |
| 19 | If you follow football you will already know that a substitute is a man who takes the place of another player . |
| 20 | And if the solicitor got it wrong it 's the executor who takes the blame . |
| 21 | It had become his belief that a good entrepreneur is not the person who takes the biggest risks but the one who learns to spot the safest bets . |
| 22 | At every point in the advance , it is the Holy Spirit of God who takes the initiative . |
| 23 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 24 | Anyone who takes the pilgrimage route — to Santiago de Compostela from the Pyrenees and along the northern route via Pamplona , Logroño , Santo Domingo de la Calzada , Frómista and León will find that almost the opposite is true . |
| 25 | He might for example be led by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) to suggest that white is ambiguous , for in ( 8 ) it seems to mean " only or wholly white " while in ( 9 ) it can only mean " partially white " : ( 8 ) The flag is white ( 9 ) The flag is white , red and blue The semanticist who takes the other tack , that natural language senses are protean , sloppy and variable , is hardly in a better position : how do hearers then know ( which they certainly do ) just which variable value of white is involved in ( 8 ) ? |
| 26 | But anyone who takes the poem head-on , as though entering upon a piece of hitherto unfamiliar English verse , is bound to be struck by its crazy-paving of little-used or dialect words ( " shaws " ) , of samples from the literary lexicon ( " meads " , " unapparelled " ) , of old-tyme poetryspeak ( " thou wast not born for aye " ) , of dubiously archaic constructions ( " friend thee more " " steads him nothing " ) , of blended or cross-bred idioms ( " pure of stain " ) , of literary reminiscences ( " dust and dreams " — a most adroit rendering of , but one that inevitably recalls Shakespeare and " we are such stuff as dreams are made on " ) . |
| 27 | In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate . |
| 28 | You see , in the first place , he is the one who takes the initiative to seek you . |