Example sentences of "but take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good head gains credibility by never pointing the finger at others to explain failure but takes personal responsibility when things do n't go well . |
| 2 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 3 | Jessica not only leaves the house unguarded but takes some money as well , saying in line 34 of Act two scene six ‘ Here , catch this casket ’ and then in line 50 ‘ with some more ducats ’ . |
| 4 | He does n't react to the negative but takes positive steps to be successful . |
| 5 | Parsley is hardy and can be sown outdoors in March , but takes several weeks to germinate if sown at that time in cool temperate regions , hence , it has earnt itself the reputation of needing " to go to the Devil seven times and back " before it will sprout . |
| 6 | The capacity to manage risk within available resources usually develops with experience , but takes considerable skill ( Crosbie , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 8 | Yeah I had my disc removed but took two operations but |
| 9 | Benjamin heard the faint crackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit . |
| 10 | Seth had been defeated by Horus but took legal action to establish his claim to the throne of Osiris by bringing his case before the nine gods of Heliopolis . |
| 11 | Gloria was officially still at school but took most afternoons off to help in the shop , for which she got paid . |
| 12 | Sally Gie , also a member of the Rover Tennis Initiative and the top seed , was surprised by the powerful hitting of Susie Durham in the second round , but took full advantage of her second chance with gutsy performances against Rebecca Foster , Jheni Osman and Claire Lyte in a ruthless performance in the final . |
| 13 | This was true , but took some time to become clear . |
| 14 | But taking all courses together there was a steady decline in the proportion of manual workers attending and a gradual drift away from subjects regarded as ‘ Social Studies ’ . |
| 15 | The D R one A is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft , all weather , at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so there 's no great hurry to make a decision er one of the first points has got ta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out . |
| 16 | Separate age-participation indices for universities only are not calculated , nor are separate indices for England and Wales ; but taking higher education as a whole , provisional data for the 1990-91 academic year show that 19.3 per cent . |
| 17 | But taking this stand was not easy , particularly for the women . |
| 18 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
| 19 | Wilson had little choice but to take legal action to recover his union 's funds and property from both Southampton and Glasgow , though without success . |
| 20 | In our opinion , the duty is not simply one to take reasonable care in the abstract , but to take reasonable care not to injure a person whom it should reasonably have been foreseen may be injured by the act or neglect if such care is not taken . |
| 21 | The duty is not simply to take reasonable care to refrain from the act or neglect , but to take reasonable care not to injure such a person by the act or neglect . |
| 22 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 23 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 24 | But the results are strongly contrasted. and perhaps the best way for the critic — as for the listener — is not to stretch comparisons , but to take each piece on its own , very different merits . |
| 25 | But to take this line is to attribute to bilinguals special linguistic powers not shared by monolinguals . |
| 26 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 27 | For them the task of the critic was not to ignore literature 's connections with the external world , but to take full account of its internal , poetic properties in his analysis . |
| 28 | But to take some fact that a novelist has written of and to add it to the mishmash at the back of your mind and then to reproduce it as part of the web you eventually weave : this is the process of creation . |
| 29 | Multiplication of decimals needs no new rules , but take extra care with place values . |
| 30 | Sufferers are agitated and resist contact with others , some pace up and down by their work , others keep away but take frequent peeks . |