Example sentences of "[adv] take [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In both cases the heads of the city telephone networks ( Vladimir Panov in Ekaterinburg and Valentin Dolgoborodov in Novosibirsk ) say the company would only take full payment in advance and insisted on using its own engineers on the projects . |
2 | In the case of the ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ I do not believe that the majority of international referees would intentionally take biased decisions in favour of one side simply because they happen to speak the same language . |
3 | Their views of appropriate actions for resolving problems of disability related to their own value systems ; the authors of the study conclude that a standard service , which does not take individual values into account , will conflict with the view of some people it is trying to help . |
4 | Environmental policies which did not take economic concerns into account were " doomed to fail " , he said , whereas " there is no better ally in the service of our environment than strong economies , economies that make possible increased efficiencies , that enable us to make environmental gains , economies that can generate new technologies and help us arrest and reverse the damage done to our environment " . |
5 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
6 | It can be rescued only if we do not take judicial opinions at face value at all ; we must treat all the judges who worry about problematical statutes and precedents as practising some unmotivated form of deception . |
7 | One of the most commonly used arguments against the use of probabilistic grammars is that they do not take semantic information into account . |
8 | Sharman counters this by pointing out that conventional syntactic grammars do not take semantic information into account either . |
9 | Although the VC7000 's £7,500 price tag will do a lot to increase the appeal of videoconferencing and videotelephony generally , it will still take huge reductions in price to give videotelephony truly widespread appeal . |
10 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
11 | Well , she 'll say to him , put kettle on and butter some bread , and he 'll sit there , and he 's smoking , and he 's continuing what he 's doing , you know , and she 'll go and do what she 's doing , and she , have you flicking arse-hole you to do , and , you know , any , it just goes in that ear , comes out 'ther ear , and just sallies on , and do n't take blind bit of notice . |
12 | You ca n't take barren spells in isolation . ’ |