Example sentences of "a [noun] take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 2 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 3 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 4 | It is clear from the Kanunname that the movement of scholars into other fields than the learned profession is envisaged : if a candidate for office in the learned profession , that is , a wishes to take up a military career instead , he is to be given a fief yielding 20,000 akce ; and Sahn muderrises and 300-akce kadis may hold the office of defterdar , and the first two may also become nisanci ; and 500-akce kadis may become . |
| 5 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 6 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 7 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 8 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 9 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 10 | Because the British planning system reinforces a natural tendency towards ‘ lumpy ’ growth , individual places tend to grow rapidly for a relatively short time and then consolidate more gradually , with the result that a place takes on a particular profile which then becomes relatively ‘ fossilized ’ . |
| 11 | This is the heart of the notion of the inner city ; at the very moment that policy draws the boundaries of the inner city a place takes on the qualities of coherence that it does not possess , embodies all the contradictions that are part of the original concept . |
| 12 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 13 | ‘ If my brother Reg wants to buy them he must come up with the money , but there are a number of interested parties , individuals and consortiums who have expressed a desire to take over the club . ’ |
| 14 | It is possible for a Policyholder to take out a policy without the benefit of index-linking . |
| 15 | But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges . |
| 16 | Very often this involves no more than manual selection , or simple extraction of the higher frequency words from a distribution taken on the corpus . |
| 17 | A team to take on the Tories |
| 18 | Mr Parry said it should be pointed out that when a person takes over a public house a protection has to be granted first . |
| 19 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 20 | Further on , the idea of being a gentleman takes on a very hard and unromantic shape . |
| 21 | The bell usually tolls for one of the big championship teams on cup day … this is cricket 's FA Cup … where the small teams the non leaguers get a chance to take on the big boys … the pros … |
| 22 | A race held across land , on water and through the air came up with an unlikely winner , when a steamroller took on a hot air balloon and a narrow boat to see which was the fastest . |
| 23 | The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight , with the referee on the cruiser 's side . |
| 24 | Then appoint a deputy to take over the command of the Warden 's duties and forces — possibly Sir Simon himself . |
| 25 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 26 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 27 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
| 28 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 29 | Today , if a man takes over a farm and gets into a muddle , he has the fertilizers , the sprays and the weedkillers — the whole lot to get him out of it . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm surprised that one did n't work because I mean they 're usually hot on it , you know they know where to go and and usually there 's action taken if a councillor takes up the cause . |