Example sentences of "[pron] take [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Here , incidentally , is my take on the homosexual male . |
| 2 | So if I take away a negative number it 's the same as adding . |
| 3 | If I take away a positive number of course that 's taken as normal take away . |
| 4 | ‘ You will not mind , Mama , if I take only a small allowance from you and Papa ? ’ |
| 5 | Every historical case of political change or resistance to change has to be analysed , therefore , in terms of a multiplicity of influences , which take on a specific character and significance in particular countries . |
| 6 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 7 | Most bacteria come into the category either of Gram-positive , which take up the purple stain , or Gram-negative which do n't . |
| 8 | Formula can , on the one hand , itself take on a positive significance , and on the other , it can provide a traditionally understood basis for the performance of individual variants ( which is what we found in the Billie Holiday recording ) . |
| 9 | Every time I rave about how sexy Rancid Hell Spawn 's distorted , chaotic pop-stupidity is and every time you take not a blind bit of notice . |
| 10 | You take up a new career in advertising … |
| 11 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 12 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 13 | You take up a left stance and line yourself up so that your left foot is in front of the opponent 's right , and your right is in front of his left . |
| 14 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 15 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 16 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 17 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 18 | Even if you take just a small step aside from total racialism , then you 're described as being part of a communist mafia . |
| 19 | I think it means like if you saw that boy do something , the police , you , you take out a sworn affidavit that you saw him do that and , I think it 's a legal document , look it up , it 's |
| 20 | Similarly , if you take out a foreign currency mortgage where sterling is exchanged for foreign currency at the time of the purchase , and you subsequently want to repay the mortgage — you then have to pay over sterling to secure foreign currency with which to do so . |
| 21 | The two pluses are books , thanks largely to Addison Wesley , thankfully decisively so and the oil services business and the only other item worth reflecting , I think worth er , remarking on , is in fact that if you take out the black hole effect er , the entertainment fall was only two million and I think that is a creditable performance . |
| 22 | Free gifts when you take out the Personal Accident Plan |
| 23 | erm On the other hand , if you take the variety , you in fact leave it very mixed still , because you take your relatively small quantity out each time you go round , and you 're taking a relatively small number of species , so that if you are logging in a tropical forest at the sort of intensity most logging takes place , you 're only creating gaps where you take out the valuable species and leave the less valuable species . |
| 24 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 25 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 26 | Doctors encounter people who take up an undue amount of their time with trivial matters . |
| 27 | There are dangers for voluntary organisations who take on an increased responsibility for service provision . |
| 28 | Additionally , for those of you who take out a joint subscription to Tennis World and the fan club service , you will automatically receive an adidas T Shirt — absolutely free . |
| 29 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 30 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |