Example sentences of "[conj] takes the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 2 | ‘ The collector has the power to keep the goods under customs control until the importer either pays the duty or takes the advantage of the section . |
| 3 | Look for music that takes the plunge into the infinities of outer or inner space , rather than music which paddles through the shallows of everyday feeling . |
| 4 | This reflects two German habits : an old one , an academic tradition that takes the ‘ science ’ bit in social science very seriously ; and a newer yearning for consensus , for believing that all sensible people really agree with each other . |
| 5 | They are known ‘ by the experience of every man that takes the pains to observe those motions within himself ’ . |
| 6 | It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants . |
| 7 | But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket . |
| 8 | Between the two is the road , and a small piazzetta that takes the palazzo 's name . |
| 9 | In Britain some 4,000 stations have gone out of use since the 1960s , and many of them have vanished altogether — swept away with a callous disregard for our architectural heritage that takes the breath away . |
| 10 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 11 | They too can be helped to return to their former prowess by following a step-by-step programme that takes the patient from one simple goal , like talking to a partner without progressing to necking , to the next ( necking without petting ) , until he has the confidence and physical resources to achieve full and satisfactory penetration . |
| 12 | The way that takes the town , |
| 13 | ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . ) |
| 14 | The ‘ technocratic consciousness ’ that takes the place of the old bourgeois ideology is not based on collective repression . |
| 15 | Where Sly went for an inward-looking drum-numbed indifference ( made bearable , glamorous even , by a wonderfully impenetrable jungle funk ) , Gaye wrought a song cycle that takes the whole world through doubt , disillusion , destruction and eventual redemption through the power of love and community . |
| 16 | The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording . |
| 17 | By day it is the blue that takes the lead . ’ |
| 18 | So , we will tackle pruning in a different way , one that takes the mystery out of it . |
| 19 | Most of the leading academics in business ethics have a grounding in moral philosophy , a discipline that takes the concept of altruism — doing good simply because it is right — rather seriously . |
| 20 | Tape units usually come with a back-up utility of their own ; presumably one that takes the fullest advantage of the functions of the hardware . |
| 21 | One particular wolf or hunting dog is not always the individual that takes the first grip on its victim . |
| 22 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 23 | And because this takes what do you call something what do you call something that takes the colour away ? |
| 24 | Inside , the use of metal has been limited to the disk drive cage , the hard disk mounting plate , the power supply box and a panel that takes the power switch , reset button et al . |
| 25 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 26 | At the other extreme , a poll tax that takes the same amount from everyone will keep the same absolute difference between the rewards in one job and the next . |
| 27 | Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the choice between x = 0 and unc can be postponed to ( at least ) the next step : it is only the value communicated down c that is at stake , and it is possible to construct a single expression that takes the correct value in all states with |
| 29 | But could n't could n't you do one that takes the competencies from the probationary work book and puts that down . |
| 30 | Who is it that takes the burden of grief ? |