Example sentences of "[Wh pn] take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I know many consultants who take supervision of preregistration house staff seriously , scheduling regular meetings and teaching sessions and using checklists to ensure that skills and techniques are mastered , it seems that these consultants are in the minority . |
| 2 | But there are those who take issue with Best 's appointment . |
| 3 | In the late romanticism of Stevenson 's tale of corruption in the South Seas , the islanders are not seen as virtuous noble savages , but certainly appear no worse than the white men who take advantage of them . |
| 4 | Car thefts are not always committed by determined professionals , most cars are stolen by casual thieves who take advantage of an easy opportunity . |
| 5 | If men who take advantage of their own daughters are simply choosing the object of least resistance , then we dare not tamper with the ancient , world-wide , multi-cultural taboo against such conduct . |
| 6 | I detest the ‘ why ? ’ writ large by the critic and historian Francisco Calvo Serraller , defender of scruffy artists , who proposes that the benediction of ‘ Guernica ’ by the Opus Dei be delayed , thereby showing his rejection of those who take advantage of culture rather than advancing its cause . |
| 7 | Er but there are of course h n while we 're on that point there are , I 'm afraid , there are s people who take advantage of Marks and Spencers , erm because they know there 's going to be no problem about having goods exchanged so what they do , they buy something from Marks and Spencers wear it on one evening for , for a party or special occasion |
| 8 | CATHERINE Crossing the road , tripping over something , burning myself on the stove , people who take advantage of you , though sometimes being blind protects me too . |
| 9 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 10 | Her actions were typical of a growing number of members of the security forces and prison service who take advantage of the availability of firearms to commit suicide . |
| 11 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 12 | It is still made in village dairies throughout South Western Switzerland by local cheese-makers who take pride in achieving the unique , smooth rich creamy taste , with a distinctive briny-dry sharpness . |
| 13 | Such organization naturally involves centralization and differentiation of leadership and authority ; so that those who take responsibility for coordinating the actions of many others must have a different status in important respects from those who are essentially in the role of carrying out specifications laid down by others ’ . |
| 14 | Personal competence — employees are highly ‘ mature ’ , i.e. they are high achievers who take responsibility for results . |
| 15 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 16 | EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings . |
| 17 | The Government has shied away from forcing unions to discipline members who take part in unofficial action , and has put proposals to curb strikes in essential services on the back burner . |
| 18 | The results are persuasive : those who take part regularly in his sports programmes at school are only one-third as likely to drop out as those who do n't . |
| 19 | The result was a bitter blow for Slough who take part in the European Clubs Championship next weekend , and their coach , Ian Jennings , admitted that the team would have to sort out several elements in the defence this week . |
| 20 | The reasons given by those who take part in commercial crime rather than straight business tend to stress the pleasure involved in ‘ trying to beat the system ’ , and the battle of wits with creditors , as well as the pleasure that the proceeds of crime bring . |
| 21 | But people who take part in sport are liable to injury or strain . |
| 22 | In fact , it is recommended that all people who take part in sport should have regular check-ups with a qualified chiropractor . |
| 23 | The race has changed in that it is no longer just the local gentry who take part . |
| 24 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 25 | Trouble in school is conceived by the pupils who take part in it both as a natural reaction to being in a classroom confronted by a teacher , and as a specific response to particular offences on the part of the teacher . |
| 26 | One can also ask whether bureaucracies determine the behaviour of the men and women who take part in the process of decision or whether these human individuals determine , among other things , the behaviour of the bureaucracies to which they belong . |
| 27 | War should be studied through those who take part in it , so that the attitudes and human reactions of those involved may be appreciated , and the phenomenon of war may thus come to be better understood . |
| 28 | A curriculum which facilitates the shared experience will enable an integrated education for all who take part in it . |
| 29 | The actual trial is , of course , a valuable experience for budding advocates who take part in it as counsel . |
| 30 | It 's best described as ‘ an adventure show with a difference ’ — an exciting test of mental and physical agility for those who take part , recorded on the largest set ever constructed for a TV programme . |