Example sentences of "[pron] take [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( Here , incidentally , is my take on the homosexual male .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Most bacteria come into the category either of Gram-positive , which take up the purple stain , or Gram-negative which do n't .
5 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 ) .
6 You take up a new career in advertising …
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters .
11 If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’
12 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
13 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
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Free gifts when you take out the Personal Accident Plan
17 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 .
18 Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle .
19 There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention .
20 Doctors encounter people who take up an undue amount of their time with trivial matters .
21 There are dangers for voluntary organisations who take on an increased responsibility for service provision .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 With Domestic Factoring , we purchase your book debts on a continuous basis and provide four basic services : an immediate advance of up to 80% of the value of invoices ; credit management and sales ledger administration — we take over the time-consuming chores of sending out statements and chasing late payers ; credit protection — we can , if required , take 100% of the credit risk on agreed customers ; and facility for growth — our service can expand as your company grows .
26 I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system .
27 If we take out a joint mortgage , will she have to cash in her endowment policy so that we can take one out together ?
28 But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive .
29 It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible .
30 Work on the house still continues , and each year they take on a new project .
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