Example sentences of "take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France . |
| 2 | An exposed and sustained E1 5b , this takes the blunt nose of the buttress , gained strenuously via an overhang-capped corner and diagonal crack . |
| 3 | ‘ Homeopathy takes the holistic approach and deals with diet , health , mental and emotional state of the patient as well as their particular symptoms . |
| 4 | The geochronological scale takes the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at 540Myr ago and the Ediacaran faunas as 580–560Myr ago . |
| 5 | If the paper takes the reapplied wash differently than the original one , this is an indication that the sizing has not thoroughly penetrated the papers ' fibres . |
| 6 | In a profile in the latest issue of New York 's Vanity Fair magazine , Mrs Clinton takes the astonishing step of naming Mr Bush 's alleged former mistress . |
| 7 | But it is the staging post for the final leg which takes the long distance route to Fort William — and it 's the beginning of another fine walk which , like the Way , skirts the heights of the Mamore range to reach scenic Glen Nevis . |
| 8 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 9 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 10 | ‘ Close Encounters ’ on D-Zone by BASSIX takes the familiar motif from the Spielberg favourite , bleeps it up and sets it on top of a busy , almost cluttered , house tune . |
| 11 | ‘ Close Encounters ’ on D-Zone by BASSIX takes the familiar motif from the Spielberg favourite , bleeps it up and sets it on top of a busy , almost cluttered , house tune . |
| 12 | This " 4W " approach , according to Auer " takes the unproblematic existence and relevance of patterns of language choice for granted " . |
| 13 | A pipe leading from the top of the cylinder or tank then takes the hot water to the rest of the house . |
| 14 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 15 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the choice between x = 0 and unc can be postponed to ( at least ) the next step : it is only the value communicated down c that is at stake , and it is possible to construct a single expression that takes the correct value in all states with |
| 17 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 18 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 19 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 20 | You must have a co-ordinator who liaises between the different people , takes the overall view , is good at detail and is ultimately the person with whom ‘ the buck stops ’ . |
| 21 | When one takes the small-scale behavior of matter into account , particles and radiation can leak out of a black hole . |
| 22 | ‘ Aliens In The Woods ’ comes couple with a mix by the original dub houser , Moody Boy Tony Thorpe , which takes the digital element into interstellar sound system territory . |
| 23 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 24 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 25 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 26 | It takes the total cost of the package for Britain to at least £1.3bn . |
| 27 | To work the system , the operator first takes the normal cap from the spray container to expose the foil seal . |
| 28 | It is also sometimes convenient ( Clarke and Hayward , 1989 ) to make the further coordinate transformation ( 15.13 ) With this , the line element ( 15.12 ) takes the alternative form of the Bertotti-Robinson line element ( 15.14 ) Region IV is now described by the line element ( 15.14 ) with the coordinate ranges given by ( 15.15 ) This is joined to regions II and III across the surfaces . |
| 29 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 30 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |