Example sentences of "take the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gold cups found in a burial at Vaphio near Sparta on the Greek mainland were probably made by Cretan craftsmen , although Sinclair Hood ( 1978 , p. 167 ) takes the rather odd position that one of the cups is of Mycenean origin , one of Minoan origin . |
| 2 | As with Double Decker it can take the most two hours Crunchie takes the most two hours |
| 3 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 4 | Woman-centred psychology takes the biologically female subject as its sole object . |
| 5 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 6 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 7 | Like other monarchs through history , Charles took the course of letting another take the most major step on his behalf ; if it went wrong he could repudiate it , if it went well then it was obviously a wise action for all . |
| 8 | As with Double Decker it can take the most two hours Crunchie takes the most two hours |
| 9 | That would have enabled us to announce in our manifesto that when we were returned to office at the election we would take the most sensible course of action . |
| 10 | It 's hard to say which one will take the most careful handling , especially in view of the fact that Calder is reported to be considering backing the building of the new radio station . |
| 11 | Will he please take the most urgent steps to correct that , because it is not only deeply damaging to companies in my constituency but harmful to the image of the Community ? |
| 12 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , many teachers ( and others ) foresaw , when they read the assessment proposals in TNC , the possibility of a ‘ national maths ( or science , etc. ) day ’ when all pupils would take the nationally prescribed tests leading eventually to publication of results for each class ( and their teacher ) , each school and each LEA . |
| 14 | Taking the oddly shaped metal comb from the pocket of his shirt , he ran it through the short oily hair on top of his head . |
| 15 | The basis of any method is the assembly of several different actions or steps into an orderly procedure taking the most efficient route from start to finish . |
| 16 | Writing today in Business Telegraph , Mr Simpson says : ‘ Even taking the most favourable comparator , the South Western company , NIE is about 20pc higher . |
| 17 | He is a master at keeping a rhythm throughout , picking up speed as soon as he has landed over a fence , and taking the most economical route . |
| 18 | Chisholm and Woodward ( 1980 ) have demonstrated that female graduates are often torn between the choices of starting a family ( and taking the most convenient work to combine with family raising , such as teaching or part-time work ) and using their education to enter high-status , traditionally ‘ masculine ’ jobs . |
| 19 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
| 20 | The five affected ministers were believed to have expressed the desire to step down , but Chandra Shekhar ruled out their resignation , taking the strictly technical line that they could continue as ministers for six months without being members of parliament . |
| 21 | Solicitors are carefully nurtured taking the relatively simple cases and mitigation pleas . |
| 22 | Taking the statistically available world as a whole , between 1840 and 1880 the area under crops rose by half , or from c. 500 to c. 750 million acres . |
| 23 | Forgetting to renew tax or insurance , and forgetting that lights are on full beam , and to some degree taking the more usual route by mistake , are unlike the others in that they appear to represent failures of prospective memory e.g. forgetting to do something . |
| 24 | Another is of women always taking the more subservient roles in home and work situations . |
| 25 | It 's easiest to stay on this path rather than taking the more obvious route up the side of the burn . |
| 26 | But , in those terms , taking the very wide range of social systems which were studied by the first generation of British social anthropologists as a model ( the list includes the Trobrianders , the Tikopia , the Bemba , the Tswana , the Azande , the Nuer , the Nupe , and the Tallensi among others ) , is it possible to formulate a useful stereotype of what this notional entity " a primitive society " or " a savage ( wild ) society " is like ? |
| 27 | Egerton went , taking the very sensible precaution of asking Mickey Skinner along as a bodyguard . |
| 28 | There were times when the writers ' arrogance or pomposity had the opposite of the intended effect of taking the often hapless victim down a peg or three . |
| 29 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 30 | Two days after the plan was announced , Mr Resende took the newly minted package to creditors in Washington . |