Example sentences of "a [noun] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 2 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 3 | RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate |
| 4 | That 's when the jokes about the missing bit started , for ring doughnuts look just like traditional ones with a bit taken out of the middle . |
| 5 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 6 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 7 | It is clear from the Kanunname that the movement of scholars into other fields than the learned profession is envisaged : if a candidate for office in the learned profession , that is , a wishes to take up a military career instead , he is to be given a fief yielding 20,000 akce ; and Sahn muderrises and 300-akce kadis may hold the office of defterdar , and the first two may also become nisanci ; and 500-akce kadis may become . |
| 8 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 9 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 10 | Whatever the validity of the various claims advanced in 1483–4 , they were surely justifications for a decision taken on other grounds . |
| 11 | Whatever the validity of the various claims advanced in 1483–4 , they were surely justifications for a decision taken on other grounds . |
| 12 | She put an end to the nuns ’ little treats and tricks , whilst at the same time allowing a whore to take up residence there . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 14 | So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance . |
| 15 | HEAD FOR HEIGHTS : A stuntman took on more than the scary Jaws |
| 16 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 17 | because it 's her er daughter 's birthday and I usually give a present to take round . |
| 18 | I got erm two chops and a spam to take through . |
| 19 | She had first had her suspicions years before when he had sent her a photograph taken on his twenty-first birthday . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've half a mind to take off , and have a look from the ceiling , ’ whispers Howard . |
| 21 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 22 | The script , about a soldier taken out of the trenches not , as he fears , to be shot , but to organize an army concert party , is just a rudimentary framework within which to present a number of variety turns . |
| 23 | Principal Hotels signed a deal to take over six of the 12 Crown Hotels which went into receivership in April . |
| 24 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 25 | It seemed incautious to attempt it indoors , and I was half-way out of bed to get a tray to take out into the garden before I realized the ridiculous nature of the enterprise . |
| 26 | He had given Gina a column to take in to his paper while he was away . |
| 27 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 28 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 29 | The company has approached the Government with a plan to take over Network SouthEast services , including branch and suburban routes , in a wide arc between London and the south coast towns of Eastbourne , Brighton , Portsmouth and Weymouth . |
| 30 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |