Example sentences of "takes a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Replication Server takes a revolutionary approach to distributed database for those organizations who do n't need absolute data synchronization but the nee need the advantages of up to date data at ll of its points of most frequent use . |
| 3 | Training in interview skills takes a preventative approach to poor standards of interviewing . |
| 4 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 5 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 6 | It then takes a major blow to fracture it . |
| 7 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 8 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 9 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
| 10 | Ricardo takes a finished biro to bits with tired fascination . |
| 11 | To a certain extent it does not matter how well a product performs if the user takes a strong dislike to it then it will not succeed in the long run . |
| 12 | Keegan takes a 17-man squad to Bristol Rovers as his high-fliers bid to justify new promotion odds of 3-1 after winning their last six League games . |
| 13 | This programme takes a scientific approach to the story by looking at the advancements in science , like the discovery of electricity , that inspired her to pen it . |
| 14 | In the world of the infant and parent , the referential function of language often takes a subordinate role to others . |
| 15 | As we saw in chapter three , it takes a historical approach to the origin of factual narrative ( Herodotus ) and the origin of fiction as discredited language ( Aeschylus ) , comparing these to their modern-day equivalents in the oral media . |
| 16 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 17 | In Section 17–2 we saw that the United States takes a structural approach to monopoly , believing that concentration and monopoly power are undesirable per se . |
| 18 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
| 19 | Drawing software takes a mathematical approach to lines and shapes , and deals with objects rather than individual pixels . |
| 20 | Do n't stick to this rigidly if the discussion takes a different course to the one you expected . |
| 21 | Part III of the 1987 Act takes a different approach to the problem of defining the mischief which it seeks to stamp out , i.e. the giving of misleading price information . |
| 22 | I repeat it here , as in sections 3.3 to 3.5 we will be looking at three different theories , each of which takes a different starting-point to the debate over the service economy , which in turn influences their conceptual framework and what counts as valid kinds of evidence . |
| 23 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 24 | Despite the element of social criticism in the poem , Langland takes a conservative attitude to popular discontent , criticizing demands for high wages and murmurs against the Statute of Labourers . |
| 25 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 26 | It will by now have become evident that this book takes an unorthodox approach to art criticism . |