Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] takes " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 2 | He 's a marked man and takes a lot of stick . ’ |
| 3 | He sits at ease in their sunny back garden and takes a carefree stroll with Jill along a country footpath . |
| 4 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 5 | When the text has a reader it ceases to be a mere object and takes on anthropomorphic form ; it has a voice or voices ( the ‘ codes ’ ) , it creates its own history ( the history of the already-read content ) , it ‘ plays ’ , ‘ creates ’ , ‘ lies ’ , etc . |
| 6 | This starts in the early teens and takes students into real living and working situations . |
| 7 | Its system is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-driven core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 8 | Its solution is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-drive core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 9 | Yet there is no reason why Government can not enter into contracts with privatized companies whether privatization is on a regional basis or takes place in some other way . |
| 10 | The gaunt , grey-haired sergeant fixes me with a studiously suspicious look and takes a note of my name and the time . |
| 11 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 12 | This scale has quite an unusual sound and takes a little getting used to . |
| 13 | The relationship used for this purpose is CONTAINS-BINARY-OF which is tight coupling and takes one of three forms : |
| 14 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 15 | But that 's the hard way and takes a long time . |
| 16 | He was appointed by postal ballot and takes up his new responsibilities in July . |
| 17 | But this applies now even where the particular family no longer conforms to traditional standards and takes account explicitly of the rise of one-parent families in German society . |
| 18 | Patient John Lyon , 74 , who has a daily dose of half a pint of Guinness , said : ‘ It 's a great idea and takes the tension out of staying in hospital . ’ |
| 19 | In this view , the social scientist produces neutral science and takes no responsibility for the ways in which it is used . |
| 20 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 21 | The other voice often brings immediate reward but takes away the inner light and hardens the heart , blinding us to what is right and what is wrong , so that we are no longer certain which path to take . |
| 22 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 23 | For theoretical purposes it is sometimes convenient to think of the average as an ensemble average ; i.e. one considers a large number of identical systems and takes the average of the velocity at corresponding instants over all these systems . |
| 24 | Neale , 38 , has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1 . |
| 25 | He befriends a battered child , stays faithful to Tess Truchart despite the show stealing advances of Madonna 's Breathless Mahoney and takes on an all-star super cast of grotesques that include Al Pacino and Dustin ‘ Mumbles ’ Hoffman . |
| 26 | If the accused enters a country mansion which is open only on certain days and takes a painting on a day when the house is open to the public he is guilty . |
| 27 | This balance is more in keeping with the needs of young people and takes into account the low self-esteem of many of those in public care . |
| 28 | Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook . |
| 29 | Creating the climate in which such tough talking can occur is a highly skilled task and takes careful preparation . |
| 30 | This provides a weak solution but takes the patient through to the next potency level in only 7–8 days . |