Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] takes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Panama Band takes a well-earned break , the Belfast Set Dancers and their musicians , who received a tremendous welcome at the Girvan Festival in May , will dance some sets for us . |
| 2 | The latest issue of the Microprocessor Report takes a deserved pot shot at Unix as still being insufficiently standardised that it may have missed its opportunity to make any credible dent on the desktop — Solaris and Destiny notwithstanding . |
| 3 | These are quite legal to buy in the States , but the Highway Patrol takes a particularly dim view of their use . |
| 4 | The winter line takes a descending right traverse under an overlap from the stance above the upper crux . |
| 5 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |
| 6 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 7 | The VDU statement takes a list of numeric arguments ( constants or variables ) and sends their least significant bytes as characters to the screen . |
| 8 | The role of the project leader takes a number of forms depending on his level of authority . |
| 9 | Erm and I think the Labour motion actually ensures that the County Council takes a more active part in addressing these issues as soon as possible . |
| 10 | The trust manager takes a percentage of your original capital , typically 5 per cent , when you first invest and a yearly fee of , say , 1 per cent of the fund . |
| 11 | The JUSTICE Report takes a different tack . |
| 12 | The Vienna Convention takes a reductivist and formalist approach to treaty law . |