Example sentences of "as it take [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 2 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 3 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
| 4 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 5 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |
| 6 | As it takes time for these reactions to occur , one country 's acid rain may be the result of another 's emissions . |
| 7 | ( As it takes place within an overall structure of hierarchy and private ownership it is clear why the principle can only be described as quasi-democratic . ) |
| 8 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |
| 9 | Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method . |
| 10 | Secondly , I am glad to have the opportunity of relating the framework of our Further and Higher Education Bill , which has today been debated in another place , to the education for adults as it take place on the ground . |