Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 2 | This kind of coordination between constituent cells in a colony was taken a stage further , probably between 800 to 1000 million years ago — some time in October in our calendar — when sponges appeared . |
| 3 | A typical decision for planning a survey is to take a century , or the reign of some sovereign to delimit a period ; this is a device with no relationship to the artistic activity of the time . |
| 4 | An alternative is to take a short nap before the meeting , making sure there is at least one hour between the nap and meeting so that you can waken fully . |
| 5 | An alternative is to take a data feed electronically from an established computerised accounting database , such as Extel Financial 's MicroEXSTAT , allowing full company analysis within seconds and tables of main customers to be drawn up and monitored automatically . |