Example sentences of "take [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate . |
| 2 | When the right hon. Gentleman next takes the opportunity to visit Blackpool , will he refer to the fact that according to the Government 's own figures which have been supplied to me , 38 per cent . |
| 3 | At this point the community adviser suggests narrowing the scope of the post but Chris Cousins , the Deputy Head Community , takes the opportunity to challenge what has been said by the other deputy when he remarks : |
| 4 | I felt an incredible sense of relief and achievement , but as Richard quickly reminded me it 's not during the first free flights that a bird takes the opportunity to fly off , because it does n't fully realise what it means to be free . |
| 5 | The meaning of words is contextually variable , and depends partly on what the hearer takes the speaker to have intended in using it . |
| 6 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 7 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 8 | Tony Mitchell takes the steamboat to meet Hartley Peavey , the Mississippi mogul with the most in hi-tech hardware , and finds out that down at Harvey 's manufacturing plant , deep in the heart of Smalltown USA , the old ways ai n't necessarily the best . |
| 9 | Tony Mitchell takes the steamboat to meet Hartley Peavey , the Mississippi mogul with the most in hi-tech hardware , and finds out that down at Harvey 's manufacturing plant , deep in the heart of Smalltown USA , the old ways ai n't necessarily the best . |
| 10 | As long as it takes the child to cease movement . |
| 11 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 12 | DE-XXXX VELOPMENT takes the genes provided by REPRODUCTION in any given generation , and translates those genes into drawing action , and hence into a picture of a body on the computer screen . |
| 13 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 14 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 15 | Assuming that the takeover scheme takes the form described in para 2.4.3 above , it will involve the following principal documents . |
| 16 | A chain takes the form shown in Fig. 6. 13 . |
| 17 | This takes the form shown schematically in Fig. 22.11 , with large temperature gradients close to the boundaries and a nearly isothermal region in the interior . |
| 18 | Usually the head coordinator is the person who er takes the initiative to organize the scheme . |
| 19 | You see , in the first place , he is the one who takes the initiative to seek you . |
| 20 | He takes the initiative to seek you . |
| 21 | If the customer has taken the trouble to complain ( which is far better than not complaining — the Profitboss would never know about lapses in service otherwise ) , the Profitboss takes the trouble to respond . |
| 22 | When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective , it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible ; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive . |
| 23 | The author succeeds in this difficult task , mainly because he takes the trouble to understand a topic thoroughly before writing about it . |
| 24 | But unless anyone takes the trouble to ascertain first what persons would care to attend a meeting , I do n't imagine that one could usefully be called . |
| 25 | The station and train staff are always very courteous and helpful ; quite often the guard takes the trouble to help me on or off with the bike ; and station staff are good at guessing in advance what part of the train will take the bike , hence where to stand on the platform . |
| 26 | For this purpose , the designer is too familiar with the product and he rarely takes the trouble to find out what the user really needs to know . |
| 27 | Another Mitchell known as " Puddin " was for many years tree planter in the village and at the later part of the 19th century planted trees around the cemetery , always maintaining he was one short , and if one takes the trouble to look there is a gap still awaiting the missing tree . |
| 28 | This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document . |
| 29 | HARPY takes the types represented by its finite state grammar and compiles out all the tokens — the possible utterances in the system — ahead of time . |
| 30 | They are known ‘ by the experience of every man that takes the pains to observe those motions within himself ’ . |