Example sentences of "[noun pl] takes [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words . |
| 2 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 3 | Hilts takes a similar tack with his other two subjects , the cowboy physicist Robert Wilson , whose discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation confirmed the big-bang theory ; and the restless , insatiable biochemist Mark Ptashne , who chose and cracked a problem — how the cell ‘ represses ’ production of proteins from certain sections of DNA — that daunted many of his senior colleagues . |
| 4 | The involvement of Welsh grandparents takes a different form : contact may be less frequent and based on invitations to visit or regular arrangements for contributing to childcare one day or one evening a week . |
| 5 | Training in interview skills takes a preventative approach to poor standards of interviewing . |
| 6 | C. nevillii takes a longer time to root than most other species . |
| 7 | Jonathan Swift in his Directions to Servants takes a sceptical view of servants ' moral propensities . |
| 8 | The Story of the Fraserburgh Lifeboats takes a similar look at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station , which had one of the first lifeboats to be built and which was also the first RNLI lifeboat station in Scotland . |
| 9 | Extracting fossils from the rock and removing the rock that partially hides the specimens takes a great deal of time and expertise . |