Example sentences of "take [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A progressively tax and transfer system takes most from the rich and give most to the poor . |
| 2 | Once you 've done them , people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment . |
| 3 | It also takes longer for an old person to use the toilet and they may sense impatience from other residents or staff if they spend as long as they would like in a toilet . |
| 4 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 5 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 6 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 7 | The work set will be directly related to the classwork and take each child approximately 40 minutes , although some tasks might take longer by the very nature of the work . ’ |
| 8 | That what is on one side is in fact a category of diverse contents does not take away from the fundamental duality . |
| 9 | But what racing could give after one good day , it could take away after a bad one . |
| 10 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |
| 11 | Such dogs do not take well to a lower pecking order and skilful training is necessary . |
| 12 | Wood , which is really a craftsman 's material , does not take kindly to the inevitable abuses of an emergency . |
| 13 | It took only until the next Wednesday when he beat me . |
| 14 | The new system , which was implemented in 1892 , took away from the Inspector-General direct control over the force . |
| 15 | On the other hand , revocations of planning permission or interference with existing uses do rank for compensation , since they involve a taking away of a legal right . |
| 16 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 17 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 18 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 19 | The programme cementing this unity was taken piecemeal from the Labour manifesto . |
| 20 | The sections , which were taken randomly from the gastric corpus and included areas of haemorrhagical damage , were evaluated by an observer unaware of the treatment . |
| 21 | The new modules , taken together with a revised Prolog module , will form an option within the new information technology general SVQ at level III . |
| 22 | This , taken together with the western blot analysis ( Fig 2 ) , shows that antibodies against human milk lactoferrin recognise human leukocyte lactoferrin and vice versa . |
| 23 | Taken together with the interim payment of 2.55 pence , this makes a total of 7.2 pence for the year — a rise of 16% . |
| 24 | Taken together with the other forces already mentioned in this chapter , increased levels of inspection become a potentially counter-productive measure . |
| 25 | Taken together with the present results , platelet activating factor is likely to modulate regional fibrinolytic activity during gastric mucosal injury induced by endothelin-1 . |
| 26 | The close temporal relation of initial resolution of her watery diarrhoea on stopping her gold treatment and subsequent development of severe enterocolitis on recommencement taken together with the renal ( proteinurial ) , and skin ( maculopapular rash ) involvement as well as transient hypo-γ-globulinaemia suggested gold as the primary cause of her colitis . |
| 27 | Taken together with the previous study on the IL2 induced ADCC in the murine system , the increase in Fc receptor positive cell populations by treatment with IL2 may have enhanced the anticolon ADCC activity in our study . |
| 28 | The reforms , taken together with the earlier tighter financial controls , mean that Bristol enters the '90s with its management and other structures in a new and improved state . |
| 29 | Taken together with the British Museum General Catalogue , a very significant proportion of all the books ever published is listed . |
| 30 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |