Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-year units take up specific issues such as nostalgia for lost innocence and order , the literature of political commitment , the relationship between artistic form and cultural change , and the significant emergence of women as producers of literature . |
| 2 | Your readers take in , probably without stopping to think much about it , that they are being treated to a rather over-the-top descriptive passage , and they then " see without seeing " that dyed moustache . |
| 3 | Our eyes take in more information than any other of our senses . |
| 4 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 5 | Individually forged knives take longer to make , so they 're more expensive — but they 're more robust and better at cutting . |
| 6 | Our relationships take on a completely new dimension as we deepen our relationship with God . |
| 7 | Together the two relationships take on a more dynamic quality and the determinate relationship is mediated by human practice . |
| 8 | ‘ When I come home from work on Friday evenings the kids take over , ’ explains Michael . |
| 9 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 10 | Function words take up only 4% of the vocabulary , or about 30% if weighted by frequency , yet they are accountable for almost 50% of the errors . ’ |
| 11 | Singing together unifies and inspires us ; music touches our emotions , and words take on a deeper meaning . |
| 12 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 13 | These two types of meaning are distinguished by the terms semantic meaning ( the fixed context-free meaning ) and pragmatic meaning ( the meaning which the words take on in a particular context , between particular people ) . |
| 14 | Carpenter and Just [ 1983 ] showed that syntactically ambiguous words take longer to process than syntactically unambiguous words , indicating that the reader is trying to determine the syntactic role of the ambiguous word while fixating it . |
| 15 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 16 | Motoring organisations like the AA agree that drivers take too many risks . |
| 17 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 18 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 19 | Phytophagous bats take principally fruit or flower products , though some take leaves , extracting fluids and rejecting solids . |
| 20 | At twilight , mosquitos and midges appear and then , as darkness falls , nocturnal creatures such as hedgehogs , owls , and bats take over . |
| 21 | Cheap trips take off |
| 22 | Goblins take over the Dwarf watch towers and forts throughout the Mad Dog Pass . |
| 23 | If the item is not too heavy or too expensive it can be given away as part of the press pack the journalists take away with them — but do remember to provide good strong carrier bags . |
| 24 | Sessions take up to 20 children , last for 45 minutes and include songs , games and stories . |
| 25 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 26 | Decentralization fragments the scope of radical change and raises the thresholds required for it to be achieved , a maxim which constitutional and administrative designers take seriously in many liberal democracies . |
| 27 | What is further required is the conversion of the pixel representation to a textual one , which is where optical character recognition ( OCR ) algorithms take over . |
| 28 | TELEKURS TAKE OVER TOPICLINE PROFESSIONAL CUSTOMERS |
| 29 | Koreans take on Lothian operation |
| 30 | To assess the amount of memory this will take , multiply 35 by 2 ( remember that three- and four-colour designs take up double the memory of two colour designs ) ; the result is 70 . |