Example sentences of "take [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win . |
| 2 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 3 | So Murphy , a man with a deep knowledge of the game , will be a help to the beleaguered Ciaran Fitzgerald as the whitewashed Irish take on the All Blacks . |
| 4 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 5 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 6 | Practically , it means that students have to become used to expressing a point of view and exposing it to the critical evaluation of their peers , and in this way take on the ethical demands of rationality . |
| 7 | With Domestic Factoring , we purchase your book debts on a continuous basis and provide four basic services : an immediate advance of up to 80% of the value of invoices ; credit management and sales ledger administration — we take over the time-consuming chores of sending out statements and chasing late payers ; credit protection — we can , if required , take 100% of the credit risk on agreed customers ; and facility for growth — our service can expand as your company grows . |
| 8 | Although tree holes are the most common nesting place , stock doves have been found nesting in rabbit holes and they occasionally take over the abandoned nests of wood-pigeons . |
| 9 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 10 | And did you see Ewan Beg take off the two heads at one stroke ? |
| 11 | Take off the old olives : if they are stuck in place , saw through them very carefully at an angle with a junior hacksaw . |
| 12 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 13 | The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock . |
| 14 | Her paper argues for the importance of standpoint to be taken into account in discussion of fundamentals such as epistemology and ontology , but also suggests that feminist political theories which assume that a conception of the subject is already available need to be complemented by more radical feminist theories ( such as those of Daly or Irigaray ) which criticise and take apart the metaphysical implications inherent in philosophical conceptions of the subject . |