Example sentences of "take [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 2 | This analysis might be taken to suggest that examples like [ 12 ] and [ 30 ] should be analysed as self-corrections . |
| 3 | Special care is taken to ensure that teachers understand and can interpret correctly for their students , the plants and wildlife they are likely to encounter along the way . |
| 4 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | ( d ) That care is taken to ensure that overpayments do not occur , particularly when using method ( c ) above . |
| 6 | And if the allocation of statements of attainment to levels , and levels to ages , is arbitrary in part , then the allocation of pupils to levels must also be arbitrary in part , even if scrupulous care is taken to ensure that assessments are based on the best available evidence . |
| 7 | Contrasting shades can enliven a room by providing an invigorating tonal counterpoint , but care needs to be taken to ensure that colours do not clash . |
| 8 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |
| 9 | Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter . |
| 10 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 11 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |
| 12 | The earning of revenues is generally taken to mean that invoices have been issued ; costs are incurred when services are received . |