Example sentences of "[adj] to take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 2 | All in all she worked solidly for two hours , and it was a relief when she was finally free to take an official coffee break . |
| 3 | We were thus free to take the Cup to lunch , where , feeling better , the former rugby hooker , Jeffrey Bernard , pronounced himself happy that ‘ if England ca n't have the Cup , then at least it 's good that the Australians have it … anybody but the wretched French and the bloody Welsh , who never bought a drink for anybody in their life ’ . |
| 4 | I pressed that such an undertaking would be meaningless if they were free to take the Conservative whip in common with faulknerite unionists . |
| 5 | I can assure the hon. Member for Ogmore that once the legislative procedure is clarified , the Government will be more than anxious to end the anomalies and the present situation in which people are unclear and therefore feel free to take the law into their own hands . |
| 6 | Instantly , Doyle let go of Jinny and started forward , his arms outstretched to take the Kalashnikov . |
| 7 | Some may find it inconvenient to take the time off work to be screened . |
| 8 | Some may find it inconvenient to take the time off work to be screened . |
| 9 | Essex beat Nottinghamshire 4–3 to take the Under-21 County Championship title . |
| 10 | But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all . |
| 11 | The 25-year-old Welshman , who had been favourite to take the Olympic title , has been unbeaten since the Games . |
| 12 | Penny , three times world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday , lost vital points when , as she lay fifth in the seventh race in her class , the centre board broke and she was ruled out of the race . |
| 13 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 14 | Colin McRae winner in Nez Zealand starts as favourite to take the Rally of Malaysia … |
| 15 | PAT Eddery was today installed favourite to take the Ritz Club Trophy awarded to the top jockey at Royal Ascot . |
| 16 | Favourite to take the big prize will be TV Trophy winner Fortunate Man , which was the fastest qualifier , clocking 41.61 secs for the 670 metres trip . |
| 17 | Britain 's Sally Prosser , favourite to take the Asian Circuit order of merit title , also had an eagle in her 71 , in which she emulated Forbes by dropping shots at the final two holes . |
| 18 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 19 | But Tatum is not afraid to take a few knocks . |
| 20 | Sunderland travel to Cambridge , with Crosby saying : ‘ I want the players to go out and not be afraid to take a few risks . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ His age is not a problem because I 've never been afraid to take a gamble on players and he could give us another option . ’ |
| 22 | It seems that the wise are the ones who are most afraid to take the Ring . |
| 23 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 24 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 25 | When using this table you may find it easier to take a sheet of A4 paper , place it alongside the column of Characteristics and mark the symptoms of your patient on the edge of the sheet using the above symbols . |
| 26 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 27 | A short tunnel was built east of the village in 1825 to take the Cromford and High Peak Railway under the main road between Ashbourne and Buxton ( A515 ) . |
| 28 | For this to take the appropriate forms in the particular cases of longitudinal and lateral correlations , |
| 29 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 30 | Scenes like these have lead schools in the Malvern area to invite a group of orphans aged from 10 to 12 to take a break in the English countryside . |