Example sentences of "takes a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any that might would be warned off by Australia , which takes a protective interest in its former colony . |
| 2 | 7 ‘ With Georgia O'Keeffe ’ , Hartley wrote in 1921 , ‘ one takes a far jump into volcanic crateral ethers , and sees the world of a woman turned inside out . ’ |
| 3 | Smith takes a measured line with floaters : ‘ I think we need a change of government … ’ |
| 4 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 5 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 6 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 7 | LIQUID ASSETS Brian Jordan takes a close look at the increasingly professional wines of England |
| 8 | In the Lancet paper , Crow takes a close look at this and other anomalies in the genetic data . |
| 9 | An exhibition at the British Museum marks the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the pharaoh 's tomb and takes a close look at its discoverer |
| 10 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire ( Mr. Kirkwood ) takes a close interest in these matters . |
| 13 | I know that my hon. Friend , who takes a close interest in these matters , understands the importance to Bristol and to British Aerospace of this decision and this order . |
| 14 | It takes a crusading type like the Admiral to find out what 's going on and retain the desire to do something about it . ’ |
| 15 | It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’ |
| 16 | Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture . |
| 17 | ( Using a Supermon min-assembler , for example , the copy ( transfer ) command is simply ‘ T 2000 27FF 9000 ’ and the process takes a mere fraction of a second . ) |
| 18 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandlebrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 19 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandelbrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in a variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 20 | This setting takes a simple theme of pressed and cut glass and white linen — and then embellishes it with flowers , fruit and candles . |
| 21 | Debora MacKenzie takes a jaded view of European elections |
| 22 | As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods ! |
| 23 | So Wimpey takes a pro-active approach to safety and it is taken into account from project planning stage onwards , ’ says construction manager , Mike Stringer . |
| 24 | It 's also good-quality stuff , and it takes a good couple of minutes of comparing the grain on the outside and the inside of the guitar to make absolutely sure that the back and sides are n't actually solid . |
| 25 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |
| 26 | It takes a good deal of suppleness to be able to get both your elbows onto the ground — you might only get your hands flat on the floor to begin with . |
| 27 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 28 | It takes a wide range of prey , and its prey assemblages are taxonomically diverse and have high equitability . |
| 29 | Although the orang-utan of Sumatra and Borneo is primarily a fruit-eater , it takes a wide variety of foods including leaves , young shoots , flowers , pith and bark and occasionally mineral-rich soil , insects and possibly small vertebrates and birds eggs . |
| 30 | The report , which takes a wide definition of Europe including Greenland , Turkey and the western Soviet Union , cites pollution , agriculture , drainage and persecution as the causes of the decline in numbers . |