Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she 's took a whole lot of Mandy and Neil ! |
| 2 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 3 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 4 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 5 | It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’ |
| 6 | ( Using a Supermon min-assembler , for example , the copy ( transfer ) command is simply ‘ T 2000 27FF 9000 ’ and the process takes a mere fraction of a second . ) |
| 7 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandlebrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 8 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandelbrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in a variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 9 | This setting takes a simple theme of pressed and cut glass and white linen — and then embellishes it with flowers , fruit and candles . |
| 10 | Debora MacKenzie takes a jaded view of European elections |
| 11 | As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods ! |
| 12 | It 's also good-quality stuff , and it takes a good couple of minutes of comparing the grain on the outside and the inside of the guitar to make absolutely sure that the back and sides are n't actually solid . |
| 13 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |
| 14 | It takes a good deal of suppleness to be able to get both your elbows onto the ground — you might only get your hands flat on the floor to begin with . |
| 15 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 16 | It takes a wide range of prey , and its prey assemblages are taxonomically diverse and have high equitability . |
| 17 | Although the orang-utan of Sumatra and Borneo is primarily a fruit-eater , it takes a wide variety of foods including leaves , young shoots , flowers , pith and bark and occasionally mineral-rich soil , insects and possibly small vertebrates and birds eggs . |
| 18 | The report , which takes a wide definition of Europe including Greenland , Turkey and the western Soviet Union , cites pollution , agriculture , drainage and persecution as the causes of the decline in numbers . |
| 19 | Polygamy , the general term for this behaviour , is widespread in the bird world , and takes a bewildering variety of forms . |
| 20 | Takes a restricted view of commerce but is full of factual information . |
| 21 | But it takes a supreme act of faith to believe that everything will be ready on time . |
| 22 | His lyrics are abysmal tosh , his singing voice so stunted , adenoidal and gumby that it takes a real effort of will to remember that this is n't a joke , that this man is actually worshipped as a rock god by literally millions of depressed , terminally adolescent would-be heroin addicts worldwide . |
| 23 | It takes a certain type of man to do a neighbourhood beat . |
| 24 | DNA briefly exposed to acid takes a certain number of aldehyde ( -CHO ) groups on board , which are stained purple by Schiff 's reagent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This packet takes a certain amount of restraint , because it , it holds a lot of different things in it . |
| 27 | Erm , but that takes a certain amount of dexterity . |
| 28 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 29 | Matrix sampling is also used , such that each student only takes a small part of the total battery of tests . |
| 30 | John takes a small pair of wraparound reflecting sunglasses from his bedside table . |