Example sentences of "take [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs |
| 32 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 33 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 34 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 35 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 36 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 37 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 38 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 39 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 40 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 41 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 42 | ( If the limescale was indeed clumping together , this is what one might expect — a sand filter takes out the finest particles ) . |
| 43 | Robyn opens a drawer in her desk and takes out the appropriate chit . |
| 44 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 45 | Takes out the whole aim of the play . |
| 46 | This , then , takes farther the secret police parable of the first play . |
| 47 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 48 | He will take on the new post of Communications Manager , ‘ leading and co-ordinating all aspects of our public relations ’ , according to Sotheby 's Chairman Lord Gowrie . |
| 49 | Not a happy marriage , and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend . |
| 50 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 51 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
| 52 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 53 | That assumption allows us to retrace and anticipate , as it were , the steps a statesman — past , present , or future — has taken or will take on the political scene . |
| 54 | Experiments in pickling different alloys of copper and zinc have shown that only alloys with between 2 and 10 per cent of copper in the zinc will take on the black patina , and the silver and brass inlays are unaffected by the pickling solution . |
| 55 | Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV . |
| 56 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
| 57 | Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport . |
| 58 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 59 | Later today the Argentinian will take on the third seed , Conchita Martinez of Spain , who beat Sabatini 's compatriot Patricia Tarabini in the quarter-final . |
| 60 | This section on English will take broadly the same shape ; I do not propose to discuss the theoretical debates in English ( such as those between structuralists and liberal humanists ) but to discuss instead the purpose of English : what the teachers of English think is the point of teaching it . |