Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As a result such homosexuality as there was usually took a repressed form .
2 and she 's took a whole lot of Mandy and Neil !
3 Any that might would be warned off by Australia , which takes a protective interest in its former colony .
4 7 ‘ With Georgia O'Keeffe ’ , Hartley wrote in 1921 , ‘ one takes a far jump into volcanic crateral ethers , and sees the world of a woman turned inside out . ’
5 Smith takes a measured line with floaters : ‘ I think we need a change of government … ’
6 When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations .
7 Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow .
8 Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow .
9 LIQUID ASSETS Brian Jordan takes a close look at the increasingly professional wines of England
10 In the Lancet paper , Crow takes a close look at this and other anomalies in the genetic data .
11 An exhibition at the British Museum marks the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the pharaoh 's tomb and takes a close look at its discoverer
12 GHI takes a close look and selects the best
13 My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case .
14 The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains .
15 The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire ( Mr. Kirkwood ) takes a close interest in these matters .
16 I know that my hon. Friend , who takes a close interest in these matters , understands the importance to Bristol and to British Aerospace of this decision and this order .
17 It takes a crusading type like the Admiral to find out what 's going on and retain the desire to do something about it . ’
18 Thus , if one takes a hypothetical case where the price was fixed at 10 francs per kilo , all grapes coming from the 100% crus — like Avize , Cramant , Bouzy , for example — would cost 10 francs per kilo , while grapes coming from the 94%-rated Rilly-la-Montagne would cost 9.40 francs and so forth .
19 It takes a tremendous effort to stop , so :
20 It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’
21 Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture .
22 ( Using a Supermon min-assembler , for example , the copy ( transfer ) command is simply ‘ T 2000 27FF 9000 ’ and the process takes a mere fraction of a second . )
23 Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandlebrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in variety of ways on the Alpha machine .
24 Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandelbrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in a variety of ways on the Alpha machine .
25 This setting takes a simple theme of pressed and cut glass and white linen — and then embellishes it with flowers , fruit and candles .
26 Debora MacKenzie takes a jaded view of European elections
27 Braverman takes a contrary view .
28 As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods !
29 So Wimpey takes a pro-active approach to safety and it is taken into account from project planning stage onwards , ’ says construction manager , Mike Stringer .
30 On the contrary , the CBI takes a long-term view — unlike Opposition Members , who rarely take a view longer than 12 months — and it commends the fact that manufacturing investment is now a third up on the level of 10 years ago .
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