Example sentences of "take some [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It takes some of the struggle out of raising funds ’ , he said .
2 Still , maybe it kind of takes some of the sport out of it .
3 I always feel it takes some of the magic away if you put things up too early .
4 Rivals are apparently grateful , hopeful marriage and a family will take some of the edge off of Gates ' competitiveness .
5 You ca n't take some of the money out of the plan ?
6 Well it 's not a savings plan , but in Covermaster , you can take some of the money if , if you need to , if , we 'll tell you that the life cover might be , er , at risk , but you ca n't do that at all in living assurance .
7 You either surrender it and take the whole cash , or keep it running , you ca n't take some of the money .
8 Portsmouth must take some of the blame for the stalemate for they came defensively formed and defensively minded , and content to rely on breakaways to snatch an equaliser and , faintly possibly , a winner .
9 His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank .
10 Media and social pressures must take some of the blame for the increase in debt .
11 The Queen must take some of the blame .
12 But I 'll take some of the blame .
13 That 's been proved tragically wrong and Mrs Hill thinks the Foreign Office must take some of the blame .
14 The government , says Roith , should take some of the credit for the growth in computer literacy in Britain over the past half a decade .
15 The tie lines are so congested it is n't true , especially with accounts being at Stansted and apparently there has been a proposal in since last March with all the costings and everything which is still waiting on an answer for improved lines which would actually take some of the computer lines and everything .
16 English departments in secondary schools should take some of the responsibility for preparing pupils for such purposes of spoken language in public life by providing firm foundations on which they will be able to build as adults with increasing maturity and experience .
17 " To inhibit a golfer 's individual style would take some of the fun out of the game and that 's not why we make rules . "
18 He has also asked if we can organise a rota of about 14 people to help take some of the burden from Alex with regards to looking after the hall .
19 TRAINER Andy Turnell has some nice young horses who will eventually take some of the burden from stable star Katabatic .
20 There are those who shake their heads and make negative noises about guidebooks like this , but there is an argument that says the publication of a Corbetts guide could take some of the pressure off the Munros .
21 ‘ Combat tunic 'll take some of the pressure , ’ Daak said .
22 This will take some of the load off our coaches . ’
23 Passive members could be transformed into active ones , they could take some of the strain off the present overworked committees .
24 But Euric did take some of the advice offered .
25 Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either .
26 The convoy originally had planned to split and take some of the aid to Gorazde , another government enclave , but after being blocked by a crater in a mined road to Gorazde , all trucks headed down the twisting , snow-covered route that UN officials feared was also mined and finally arrived in Zepa to a tumultuous welcome .
27 If an inner northern relief road were built , it could take some of the traffic which the western relief road is catered to deal with .
28 Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house .
29 HP agreed to take a small stake in Convex earlier this year under an agreement that includes Convex using the PA RISC family in a massively-parallel computer system it is designing , and also involves each company taking some of the other 's products on an OEM basis .
30 This is done by taking some of the parameter estimates from external empirical sources .
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