Example sentences of "[noun sg] takes the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boxing : Stretch takes the short cut to victory |
| 2 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 3 | When the child takes the occasional mouthful she can smile and praise but otherwise no attention should be given to the food refusal . |
| 4 | the meeting takes the wrong direction by cutting across existing organizational strategy |
| 5 | The experience curve takes the following form : where y is the average cost calculated over the company 's cumulative volume produced to date , x is the cumulative volume produced to date , a is the cost of the first unit produced , and b reflects the rate of learning . |
| 6 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 7 | ‘ Homeopathy takes the holistic approach and deals with diet , health , mental and emotional state of the patient as well as their particular symptoms . |
| 8 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 9 | Much of the women 's art takes the given map and redrafts it . |
| 10 | As soon as a woman takes the dominant role , that is when things start to go wrong . ’ |
| 11 | If the paper takes the reapplied wash differently than the original one , this is an indication that the sizing has not thoroughly penetrated the papers ' fibres . |
| 12 | The geochronological scale takes the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at 540Myr ago and the Ediacaran faunas as 580–560Myr ago . |
| 13 | A simple example of this calling takes the following form |
| 14 | Thus , whereas for Jakobson the " poetic function " co-exists in any given utterance with the " referential function " , de Man takes the poetic function as the sole function , not only of literature , but of language in general . |
| 15 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 16 | The argument that the dependent status of elderly people has been deliberately structured by the state and society takes the economic conditions of the non-institutionalized elderly as being at the root of their dependent status . |
| 17 | In the case , however , of a mandatory life sentence for murder ( into which category all the present appeals fall ) the minister of state takes the judicial view into account but does not necessarily adopt it as the tariff . |
| 18 | Howard Jacobson 's latest novel takes the Biblical Cain as its hero . |
| 19 | This book takes the practical issues of the day and relates them to students ' training needs . |
| 20 | After the traversal program has determined the order in which links will be crossed , a printing program takes the semantic net and the paragraphs and produces a camera-ready document . |
| 21 | Sartre considered that orthodox dialectical materialism takes the easy way out by merely eliminating the first in favour of the second , making man a passive product entirely determined by economic circumstances . |
| 22 | A Chinese master takes the full force of a spear against the throat . |
| 23 | When the child has grown beyond babyhood , the father takes charge of the boy 's education , while the mother takes the whole responsibility of the girl 's education and a part of the boy 's education . |
| 24 | On the other hand if the increase in the money supply takes the private sector completely by surprise so that the whole of this increase is unanticipated , the short-run response of output will be much more pronounced . |
| 25 | It is not so drastic a solution as our first all-in-the-mind theory which attributes to the wavefunction a significance purely in terms of human knowledge , for this third view takes the external world much more seriously as the origin of the chain of correlated consequence . |
| 26 | Peter Thorburn , the other new face on the All Black panel , has been given the bread-and-butter jobs , while the Mains-Kirton tandem takes the top side . |
| 27 | So , from the dominant parliamentary perspective the Left takes the British constitution for granted as a good thing , and from the insurrectionary perspective the Left sees the British constitution ( if it sees it at all ) as beyond the pale of reasoned consideration and change . |