Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] takes the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases it is also hard to measure scheme cost , eg where aid takes the form of tax concessions . |
| 2 | Where government takes the form of absolute power ‘ the one who controls it appears to the people as a divinity … this religiosity can not fail to have its usual effects on punishment ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 305 ) , making punishment more severe than one would expect for a society of the same level of development but a less absolute government . |
| 3 | If borrowing takes the strain , taxes — not just our taxes , but the next generation 's too — have to go up to service the debt . |
| 4 | There are penalties in specialising : if evolution takes the niche away ( when the Type 48-x is scrapped ) , specialists may become extinct ( or redundant , as socioecologists call it ) . |
| 5 | I was also on vitamin injections , because alcohol takes the vitamins out of your body . |
| 6 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 7 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |
| 8 | Many have objected that this analysis is hardly Marxist — insofar as Marxism takes the form of an analysis of the misappropriation of surplus value . |