Example sentences of "take a [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics compare him to Jeremy Thomas , who produced The Last Emperor but whose name takes a back seat to Bertolucci 's . |
| 2 | Add to this the possibility that by eating organic produce we might be filling the cornfields with poppies once again and I suspect that mere flavour often takes a back seat . |
| 3 | Both Sonatas are cleanly played , but the inner momentum of Rachmaninov 's first movement is lost : Yo-Yo Ma too often takes a back seat when he ought to be showing the lead , and this affects the balance . |
| 4 | Responsibility is an aspect of autonomy to which lip-service is commonly paid but which takes a back seat in most discussions about children . |
| 5 | These days Peter takes a back seat . |
| 6 | De Niro , curiously takes a back seat , indeed , content to re-invent Noodles ( Once Upon A Time In America ) with a darker , more sadistic bent . |
| 7 | Just to show that ‘ God 's Own County ’ actually takes a back seat now and again I reproduce a photograph from the Divisional Dinner , which took place last autumn but was not published to allow other articles ( from other Divisions ) to be printed . |
| 8 | De Niro , curiously takes a back seat , indeed , content to re-invent Noodles ( Once Upon A Time In America ) with a darker , more sadistic bent . |
| 9 | ‘ Housing , education and social services would obviously take a back seat . ’ |
| 10 | But even now , some senior DUP men are slightly perplexed at the apparent willingness of non-evangelicals to ‘ take a back seat and push the others forward ’ , as one man put it . |
| 11 | Expressing his absolute contempt of bands who rely on ambient , effect-heavy swirling guitar sounds , Bernard insists his own playing will never take a back seat musically . |
| 12 | Foreign policy will take a back seat while Clinton sorts out domestic problems . |
| 13 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 14 | Until this improves , it 's likely that Russia will take a back seat for Western investment . |
| 15 | Although technology can not realistically take a back seat , we will try to tackle concepts at a simple level . |
| 16 | At this stage , most venture capitalists will take a back seat , assuming a role appropriate to the position of a non-executive director . |
| 17 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 18 | There seems to be a feeling that having done well one year you should then take a back place in the queue . |
| 19 | Karoly Grosz , the outgoing general secretary , cut a lonely figure as he bowed out , dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics . |
| 20 | As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational . |
| 21 | Erm , not just taking a back seat , we need to actually promote these . |
| 22 | In part two : Taking a back seat … |
| 23 | It also campaigned for maternity benefit to be paid to the mother and for maternity care to be improved , and , under Margaret Llewelyn Davies 's leadership , took a strongly pacifist line . |
| 24 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 25 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 26 | While singer Neneh Cherry moved on to crossover fame , her fellow conspirators took a back seat . |
| 27 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 28 | Even Waterman 's own trusted experts , stylist Sharron and dancer Claire , both of whom had been a backbone of Kylie 's organisation , took a back seat as Kylie took control herself . |
| 29 | Hallett , who has slipped from seventh to 24th in the provisional world ranking list for next season , missed an easy green in the opening frame then took a back seat as rampant Wattana raced 5–0 ahead . |
| 30 | Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems . |