Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] that take " in BNC.

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1 The actual surface consisted of a flimsy 6-in ( 15-cm ) layer of concrete , a far cry from the resilient surfaces that take today 's high-speed cars .
2 Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades .
3 Stoichiometric procedures also help the biochemist to follow the metabolic processes that take place in organisms .
4 This question led us off into the usual calculations that take place on these occasions , sprinkled with the odd exclamation of ‘ No ! ’ ,
5 Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties .
6 Stoichiometry is the study of the quantitative composition of chemical substances and also the quantitative changes that take place during chemical reactions .
7 Executive managers may need help in discerning the difference between the individual changes that take place during transformation and the completion of the transformation itself .
8 Statistics show that typically it only accounts for two per cent of all the verbal behaviours that take place in a conversation .
9 The trend of the three elections that took place between 1978 and 1982 was for UGT to narrow the gap between itself and CCOO .
10 The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour .
11 Among the many meetings that took place that night , one of the most significant seems to have taken place at the house of a Foreign Office Minister , Tristan Garel-Jones .
12 Here we chart the substantial changes that took place in the direct/indirect tax ratio during the 1970s and early 1980s .
13 River boats brought wool to Rawcliffe from the West Riding , transferring their cargoes to the sea-going vessels that took the wool abroad .
14 It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic .
15 It would be reasonable to assume that the considerable changes that took place in Britain were a result of these large-scale confiscations .
16 And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo .
17 By analogy , the various rituals that take place at standing stones cause these to function siacupuncturists needles , encouraging and redistributing energy flows and freeing blockages .
18 The overall aim is thus centred upon producing , in the short term , substantive material concerning the various interactions that take place in old people 's homes .
19 The five practices that took part in the shadow exercise became real fundholders in October 1991 and two other practices are participating in the small practice shadow exercise .
20 But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods .
21 Schoolchildren may be maypole dancing or in the procession in fancy dress , local groups and societies enter floats , others may be involved in the fund-raising events that take place throughout the year or senior citizens may be invited to the ‘ old folks tea and treat ’ ( which takes place on the Monday ) , organised by the maypole committee and an important part of the May weekend .
22 OR IF YOU LIKE , YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN BY ADDING ANY OF THE FIFTEEN TOPPINGS THAT TAKE YOUR FANCY .
23 However , there were no suitable ponies , and indeed the only horses that took his eye in the whole sale were two Arabian stallions .
24 Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects .
25 I am astonished there has been silence about the anti-war demonstrations that took place in most Arab cities from Morocco to Syria .
26 It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands .
27 His empathy with the childhood world of romance and humour creates instantly absorbing scenes , intricate but never over-ornate. they perfectly complement the text and are resonant with neo-romantic traits , notably the twisting paths that take the eye into this other world , with pleasing and imagative effect .
28 What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters .
29 Ally McCoist , who invited Malta to take that with the two goals that took his tally for Scotland to 15 , also thrived on the good service provided by Pat Nevin , John Collins and Paul McStay .
30 His team took rat neurons ( nerve cells ) and grew cell lines in culture to allow them to examine some of the chemical processes that take place .
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