Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] takes a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 2 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 3 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 4 | ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high . |
| 5 | For example , you could offer to look after the children for the weekend while he takes a well-earned break . |
| 6 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 7 | Using the first few feet of Scylla is Puppet ( E1 5b , 5b ) before it takes a delicate traverse out right to climb an obvious groove . |
| 8 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , her workload is not reduced , as she takes a greater number of smaller prey . |
| 10 | Read about Julia Roberts as she takes a deep draw on the cigarette in her right hand' . |
| 11 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 12 | Therefore , as it takes a considerable amount of time to scan the tapes looking for rarely occurring variants , we have selected one particular variable of this kind , which we call meat/mate , and have studied this quantitatively outside the main projects in a different way . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains . |