Example sentences of "[vb infin] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akram said : ‘ I did n't need to take the new ball before tea because the old ball began to swing . |
| 2 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 3 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 4 | Each marketing response will have to take the relevant contingencies into account , so that ( to use the jargon ) it is situationally relevant . |
| 5 | Not infrequently he wished his penis did n't have to take the entire responsibility for the success or failure of the operation . |
| 6 | ‘ The old fuel cells were self supporting , ’ explained Dick 's mechanic , Nick Quint , ‘ but to work on them , one would have to take the entire cell out of the fuselage . |
| 7 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 8 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 9 | During the last war Bert was asked if lie had received his " Calling up papers " , his reply was " They will have to take the old horse as well " . |
| 10 | They must , clearly , try to take the main citadels , and especially Scone . |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't want to take the obvious Beatles quotes which most serious Beatles collectors will have , ’ explains Jim . |
| 12 | If you drive yourself fairly hard in most areas of your life , it does n't hurt to take the easy option in your leisure time . ’ |
| 13 | But there 's something in even the very best of us which would really prefer to take the easy way out , if that 's at all possible . |