Example sentences of "the [adj] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 2 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 3 | This means that a player ca n't pass back to himself , as it were , run into the '22 to take the pass and then clear his lines . |
| 4 | As the Americans hoped to obtain substantial rights in the Middle East , the British took the opportunity to use their influence in those countries and warn the governments about what wide American penetration of their air services would mean . |
| 5 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 6 | It was after all from the Portuguese that the French took the hint about the rightness of fresh tomato sauce with eggs , fish and rice ; à la portugaise signifying , in French cookery , a dish in which the tomato figures . |
| 7 | The young go fast on the perimeter path , and the old take the way more slowly , but each man is struggling for speed , because speed is warmth . |
| 8 | The Japanese took the initial technology and kept moving it forward . |
| 9 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 10 | If the accused takes the umbrella and leaves it on a bus , the victim is unlikely to get it back . |
| 11 | The position is different where the accused takes the victim 's season ticket , uses it up and then hands it back . |
| 12 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 13 | The second took the man you dealt with . ’ |
| 14 | However , after a lengthy arm-aching battle just seven common finished in the landing net , the heaviest taking the scales to 7–1–0 . |
| 15 | The latter took the attitude that the DC-10 satisfied the requirements of the Federal Airworthiness Regulations but the Dutchmen stood their ground and countered that the requirements were inadequate . |
| 16 | During 1838 and 1839 the latter took the entire amount of 4,719 tons 4 cwt. 6 stones dry weight with a value of £35,302 : 11s. : 4d. ; Royalty paid was £2,712 : 12s. : 8d. , being one-twelfth , but after the deduction of certain expenses related to the selling . |
| 17 | When Peter the Great took the final step of proclaiming himself Emperor in 1721 he discarded the jewelled cap in which he and his brother Ivan had originally been crowned in 1682 . |
| 18 | ‘ But Urban the Eighth took the bronze from the inside of the dome and gave it to Bernini so he could create a baldacchino — a canopy — for the papal altar in Saint Peter 's . ’ |
| 19 | Admittedly in the beer industry the MMC took the position that , although there were block exemptions , they could be negated under certain circumstances if the agreements were detrimental . |
| 20 | On past form , secondary schools in Conservative areas will be the first to take the plunge . |
| 21 | ‘ After further confusion , Buckingham conferred with Gloucester and the former took the stage . ’ |
| 22 | The former took the name of Shi'a ( which conveys the concept of a party of followers — in this case of Ali , whom the Shiites especially venerate , and by extension also of Husain ) and the latter that of Sunnis ( connoting the sunnah , the tradition relating the life-story and precepts of Muhammad , compiled from the Qur'an and the commentaries of the Prophet 's contemporaries . |
| 23 | Alfred ( Finney ) and Michael ( Stephen Moore ) have n't spoken since the former took the latter to court over a play called Family Matters which exposed the skeletons in the Manx cupboard . |
| 24 | In the light of this examination of usage with cause and make , it is readily understandable why the former takes the to infinitive while make does not . |
| 25 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 26 | And that fellow of Benedetta 's who helped her away to Shrewsbury when the Welsh took the town ? |
| 27 | The most powerful feudal lord in Germany , Adolf , archbishop of Cologne — the last to take the oath to the young Frederick and the first to break it — wanted Richard I. The diocese had strong ties with England and there were important commercial considerations . |