Example sentences of "[noun] takes [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter .
2 The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side .
3 The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it .
4 Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs
5 With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops .
6 COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler .
7 Operations support superintendent Barry Edwards takes on the added responsibility for those functions which were previously carried out by production branch .
8 Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme .
9 ABBERLEY : In a part of Greece , a remote part , a man who kills another man takes over the dead man 's wife .
10 Whatever decision the government takes on the East-west route , the amount of traffic on the roads will continue to grow — and despite the problems of freight , the vast majority of vehicles on the roads — over 80% — are private cars .
11 The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected .
12 If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form :
13 The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side .
14 A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him .
15 In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) .
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