Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , when they were alone , Marshall said : ‘ If that was an accurate account , one person had ample opportunity to take the knife off the bar and we already know he was at Linley 's party . ’ |
| 2 | FRIDAY : The management-employee buy-out bid at Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority was abandoned after possible plans to take legal action over the privatisation process were dropped . |
| 3 | It seems that it was a hasty decision to take away the armoured car , which had become inseparable from the city 's history . |
| 4 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
| 5 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 6 | Protocols of accession to GATT were signed by Bolivia on Aug. 4 , 1989 , and by Costa Rica on Nov. 27 , 1989 ; accession ( as the 97th and 98th contracting parties ) was in each case to take place 30 days after ratification by the respective country 's legislature , which had not , however , been completed by the time of the 45th session of the GATT contracting parties held in Geneva , Switzerland , on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 . |
| 7 | I says , ‘ I 'll give you two bloody minutes to take that bottle away . ’ |
| 8 | The best hope of breaking the current deadlock may lie in a threat by the European Parliament to take legal action against the Council of Ministers in the European Court of Justice . |
| 9 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 10 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was a stupid and unnecessary action to take against Bobby Gould and I am deeply concerned about it all . |
| 12 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 13 | In order to identify those most at risk and encourage potential restorers from the public and private sectors to take on buildings in need of rescue , the Buildings At Risk Service has been set up . |
| 14 | The Junior Citizens Project held at Harwell 's Ridgeway House was for 10 to 11 year-old children from Wantage and Didcot junior schools to take part in initiative tests on safety . |
| 15 | The Majlis on Oct. 31 approved a draft bill authorizing the Iranian President to take measures for the arrest and punishment anywhere in the world of US citizens found guilty by the Iranian judiciary of anti-Iran terrorist activity . |
| 16 | Where a person is injured it is normal practice to take a statement to the effect that ‘ the following injuries were sustained ’ . |
| 17 | The fourth is that , if the principle is to be recognised , this is an almost ideal moment for that recognition to take place . |
| 18 | The future of the perehera depends , alas , on the continued existence of enough elephants in the wild to provide tame working animals to take part in this great spectacle . |
| 19 | In considering what possible action to take against Libya in future , will my right hon. Friend work extremely closely with his European Community opposite numbers ? |
| 20 | Ideologies of this sort both prevent procrastination through excessive thought and analysis and reduce uncertainty about the right steps to take , thus increasing commitment and motivation . |
| 21 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 22 | In the big top , Radio Cleveland entertain in the morning followed at 2pm by Radio 2 's John Sachs who will be inviting listeners to take part in the Bank Holiday Quiz and It 's Your Radio 2 . |
| 23 | So we had thirty-nine public meetings to take into account what ordinary men and women wanted . " |
| 24 | The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action . |
| 25 | This option enables you to force another user to take responsibility for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) . |
| 26 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 27 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 28 | They had obviously discovered some scrap to take with them , and it was him . |
| 29 | With a strong emphasis on value-for-money , this opportunity to take the controls of a locomotive on Britain 's longest preserved railway should prove popular with those who really want to get their hands dirty . |
| 30 | But what mattered , as Bernard well knew , was that she was young and energetic and would feel charged with enormous responsibility and will to succeed in return for being offered this opportunity to take ‘ Laura Ashley ’ to the States . |