Example sentences of "take a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around 50 threads per centimetre ( 127 per in ) , it takes a powerful magnifying glass to distinguish the equal warp and weft ; but look if you can , and it will give you a better appreciation of the quality of ripstop nylon . |
| 2 | Another option to defeat a hostile bidder is to bring in a friendly " white squire " who takes a strategic blocking stake in the target company . |
| 3 | Punchy and powerful theatre by the country 's foremost mime company , incorporating rich comedy , music and expressive energetic performances in a show that takes a sharp critical look at society 's attitude to women and alcohol ‘ Shrewd detailed observation … disarmingly truthful ’ The Guardian ‘ Honest , humorous and compulsive ’ . |
| 4 | Looking at the graceful lofty sweep of the stone finger now it only takes a slight imaginative leap to picture the majestic beauty of the abbey in its former entirety . |
| 5 | It only takes a small criminal minority to cause these problems and the message must be that the residents of this estate will pull together to stop it happening again . |
| 6 | The House knows that he takes a great personal interest in the training of young people , not only in his constituency but by virtue of his chairmanship of the Select Committee on Employment . |
| 7 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 8 | An example is when a drunken student takes a flashing yellow light from a road excavation , puts it into his bedroom , wakes up to discover it there , and decides to keep it . |
| 9 | Spender ( 1982 ) believes that women 's thinking takes a special subjective form that can not be formalized in men 's language . |
| 10 | The winter line takes a descending right traverse under an overlap from the stance above the upper crux . |
| 11 | That 's something it takes a sturdy British workman to understand . ’ |
| 12 | Sam Rollins takes a miniaturized listening device from his shirt pocket and gently attaches its sucker to the phone . |
| 13 | What I wanted was to go home and take a nice long rest . |
| 14 | Anyway IF ( again that word ) we buy the guys then I go let Newsome go and let Mel take a nice handy coaching job in the 3rd division . |
| 15 | It might also take a narrow vocational view of the role of the colleges and seek to impose academic judgments on them in a way which the local authorities had not done . |
| 16 | But it did not take a sharp journalistic instinct to realise that for refugees — particularly young refugees — life could never be that simple . |
| 17 | The bullet in the groin at the end of Lipstick may be cathartic , and we may take a certain ghoulish delight in watching Farrah Fawcett in Extremities debate whether to bury alive in the garden the attempted rapist she has tied up in her house . |
| 18 | Better take a cheap all-day ticket , the bus conductor advised , if Nenna really wanted to get from Chelsea to Stoke Newington . |
| 19 | Instead of crying over the restrictions that are being ( thank goodness ) imposed , maybe they should take a good hard look at themselves and clean up their act , using aids like ‘ poop scoops ’ and long controlling leads . |
| 20 | See after a breast operation does it take a long long time with stitches ? |
| 21 | Er as we know round about July August time , the remaining nine P C's will be er turned into civilians wave of a magic wand the biggest problem there is the total loss of our skills base overnight effectively , the second thing is it 'll take a long long time to get them trained particularly in relation to A L O work . |
| 22 | That is when we realised that the materialistic gap between the rich and poor was indeed nothing compared to the wide gulf in understanding , and that the understanding of health problems in this country would take a long painstaking process of re-accumulating the evidence . |
| 23 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 24 | When he had finished the mandarin disappeared again as silently as he had come , and Joseph saw the emperor take a rolled Chinese scroll from one of his sleeves . |
| 25 | They would take a lazy bottom turn , stall as they climbed up the wave , then disappear behind the curtain for a second or two , reappearing like actors at the end of a play to take a bow . |
| 26 | Peter Christie of Midland Montagu said that he would always take a separate commercial decision on each assignment , according to fees quoted . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether I can take a male Prime Minister seriously , Bill . |
| 28 | Let us take a simple three-sentence exchange between two parties , and ask what information it provides us with above and beyond what might be given by the semantic content of the component sentences . |
| 29 | As an illustration , we shall take a simple seven-word sentence from Katherine Mansfield 's story A Cup of Tea : [ 3 ] The discreet door shut with a click . |
| 30 | In effect I reckon it will only take a slight upward change of gear and performances to become something special . |