Example sentences of "the [noun] take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 2 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 3 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 4 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 5 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 6 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 7 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
| 8 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 9 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 10 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 11 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 12 | In the case of Russia , revisionist research has underlined the manner in which the specific nature of the tsarist regime conditioned the decision to take on the Central Powers . |
| 13 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
| 14 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 15 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
| 16 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 17 | The installation of a Lasercomp in 1979 enabled the Division to take on the filmsetting work of the Computer Assisted Typesetting unit as well as expand the range of their own setting . |
| 18 | Once egg laying is complete , the female retires to a safe distance and the male takes up a guard position under the nest . |
| 19 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 20 | It is at this point that the women are introduced into the story to take over the role of the disciples . |
| 21 | An obligation on the acquirer to take over the obligations under existing contracts and other continuing obligations of the business ; to indemnify the offeree for any liability that arises subsequent to completion in respect of them ; and , in particular , provision for dealing with warranty claims in respect of products sold prior to completion and product liability . |
| 22 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |
| 23 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 24 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 25 | The light took on a green tinge and a drunk |
| 26 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 27 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 28 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 29 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 30 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |