Example sentences of "and [noun] that take " in BNC.
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| 1 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 2 | We must recognise that we need both accurate descriptions of language that are related to situation , purpose and mode ( i.e. whether the language is spoken or written ) , and prescriptions that take account of context , appropriateness and the expression of meaning . |
| 3 | Ease Gill Beck rises on the slopes of Crag Hill and after an uneventful early passage meets limestone on the 1200-ft contour , whereupon its flow becomes extremely erratic ; its rocky channels are tortured by fissures and crevices that take much of the water . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 5 | In London there are always communities and societies that take in all different kinds of people . |
| 6 | Labels such as ‘ mono-hierarchical ’ , ‘ mono-organizational ’ , ‘ USSR Incorporated ’ ( Meyer 1965 ) , the ‘ organizational society ’ , the ‘ command society ’ ( Rigby 1964 ) and the ‘ administered society ’ ( Kassof 1964 ) are used , implying that the political conflicts and struggles over resources , status and power that take place within the communist state are analogous to those experienced within large corporations . |
| 7 | No such event occurs in Shakespeare , of course , and my use of this model is meant to stimulate thought about how we might classify the many shifts between verse and prose that take place in Shakespeare , most frequently in the middle-period plays . |