Example sentences of "took the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 2 | Arsenal have done well with the former , Liverpool in the past took the latter path with great success . |
| 3 | Liberia and Panama took the latter view , and claimed that the election was null and void from the moment Liberia was not elected . |
| 4 | Pre-Darwinian comparative anatomists took the former view ; since Darwin , the latter has prevailed . |
| 5 | When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach . |
| 6 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 7 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 8 | If others took the same decision it would spare the North selectors some uncomfortable choices . |
| 9 | Local Authorities took the same attitude . |
| 10 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 11 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 12 | Navigation by the sun and stars almost always took the same course as the tyre-tracks . |
| 13 | It may simply be the case that Boswell , seeing that Johnson chose not to mention Culloden , took the same course of action . |
| 14 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 15 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 16 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 17 | The minister , whose evidence led to the collapse of the Matrix Churchill court case this week , took the same position in writing . |
| 18 | According to Murimuth the Earls of Derby , Salisbury , Warwick , Arundel , Pembroke and Suffolk ‘ and many other barons and knights ’ took the same oath . |
| 19 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 20 | The other group ( the " Explanation " group ) took the same time to cover the same materials . |
| 21 | He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form . |
| 22 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 23 | Nigerian Television ( NTV ) , also federally organized and centred , took the same view . |
| 24 | The Women 's Labour League , of which Mrs MacDonald was a leading member , took the same view , seeing in paid work the additional disadvantage that a woman had less opportunity to ‘ give thought and companionship to her husband ’ . |
| 25 | If I am wrong , I am wrong in the company of comrade Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who took the same view in his book of 5957 on Imperialism , the Highest Stage of Capitalism . |
| 26 | In that case , which involved the transfer of patients and the lease of a building from one drug dependency foundation to another as a result of the local authority 's decision to transfer its subsidy , the Court took the same view that the decisive criterion was whether the business in question retained its identity and adopted a similar approach to the range of factors to be taken into account by the national court in deciding this matter . |
| 27 | The Left Wing of the ILP took the same view , though eventually it became more sympathetic to the Communists . |
| 28 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 29 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
| 30 | The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ? |