Example sentences of "was [adj] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly before he was due to take mock exams , he was at a geography lesson which was interrupted by a teacher calling for his services in a football match . |
| 2 | ‘ Telfer was right to take that approach . ’ |
| 3 | Andrew had every right to assume he was free to take another wife . " |
| 4 | Salvation could only be sought with a leader who possessed personal power and was prepared to take personal responsibility , sweeping away the causes of the misery and the faceless politicians and bureaucrats who prevail over it , and seeming to impose his own personal power upon the force of history itself . |
| 5 | Unless she was prepared to take second place in his life . |
| 6 | The head , however , felt that in general the inspection had been conducted in a professional manner and claimed that he was willing to take constructive criticism in a constructive way . |
| 7 | Only one man , it seems , was willing to take general relativity at face value , and while Einstein and other physicists were looking for ways of avoiding general relativity 's prediction of a nonstatic universe , the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann instead set about explaining it . |
| 8 | No one seemed to be around , but nobody was willing to take any chances , and so they left the road and approached cautiously across country . |
| 9 | There was no cinema , no dance-hall , not even a café , and as we had no centre in which to foregather ( save The Galleon ) , and were all working on different shifts , it was impossible to take any initiative in organising group entertainment . |
| 10 | Directed by Sustrans , the project was supposed to take six weeks , but was completed in 15 days , such was the enthusiasm and hard work of the volunteers . |
| 11 | In Croatia UNPROFOR had been completely deployed by June 9 and was supposed to take full control of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Serbian Krajina " ( RSK — comprising Serb areas in Croatia ) by June 25 , deployed along the demarcation line between the two sides . |
| 12 | That an atheist regime was likely to take scant notice of advice based on religious preference is self-evident . |
| 13 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 14 | And I was sure to take good care . |
| 15 | ‘ He was unlucky to take 23 wickets in Sussex 's last two games of the season after the touring side had already been picked — I guess I was the lucky one to benefit . ’ |
| 16 | The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action , even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook . |
| 17 | Indeed he was apt to take violent prejudices against certain men and women in public life with whom he was not personally acquainted . |
| 18 | Mr Stein was unable to take much comfort from the performance of the rest of his company with only the racing division performing well . |
| 19 | Salt was unable to take this exaggeration . |
| 20 | But two early knockdowns in the third swung the bout his way , although he was unable to take full advantage of his superiority . |
| 21 | In that connection , and in view of the impending serious food shortages in the Soviet Union , may I ask whether he was able to take any initiatives at Maastricht to help move foodstuffs from the Community to the Russian people ? |
| 22 | Add in the slower pitches ad lower bounce and Hick was able to take full advantage . |
| 23 | After a fight , I was able to take three books . |
| 24 | It was also partly down to the well-disciplined orchestra , although the jazz idiom of , for instance , Crown 's ‘ A Red-Headed Woman ’ is not really in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's blood , and Libor Pesek was inclined to take more time than some of his soloists wanted . |
| 25 | By the following year , guerrilla activity on the part of the Zealots had intensified to such a degree that Rome was obliged to take vigorous countermeasures . |
| 26 | Arnie was ready to take that risk but I was n't : I 'd been the one at London station . |
| 27 | By the end of the nineteenth century , Zurich had grasped the nettle of industrial development to become a leader among the world 's banking centres , thanks mainly to the foresight of Alfred Escher , and , at the centre of a skilfully developed network of communications and engineering feats , was ready to take full advantage of the transport explosion . |
| 28 | If A had an honest doubt whether there was a contract at all between B and C it has been held that this would provide a good defence but if the doubt is whether A 's rights or C's under two inconsistent agreements should prevail and A chooses to adopt a course which on one view of the law will undoubtedly interfere with C 's rights , it has been said that he must at least show that he was advised and honestly believed that he was entitled to take that course . |
| 29 | Any quarry was entitled to take evasive action : to pre-empt discovery by striking first . |