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

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1 Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase .
2 The British campaign against pesticides takes off , page 16
3 FEW nations takes their New Year revelries as seriously as the Scots .
4 This suggests that this counting on of steps takes place at an unconscious , neural level .
5 This collection of questionnaires takes approximately ten to fifteen minutes to complete and can be used alongside the assessment interview .
6 — Cruelty to animals takes two forms : the method of killing it and what you do with a live animal which is in your power .
7 Most scientists are now persuaded that control of the exotic animals takes precedence over much other work .
8 All Fine Craft Design units are project-led in years one and two and student-led in year three , where one of the units takes the form of a dissertation .
9 Digestion of the starch into its component glucose units takes place at the luminal surface of the gut epithelial cells , but these glucose units are immediately absorbed by the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter so that they do not contribute to the osmotic activity in the gut lumen .
10 If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve .
11 Furthermore the term group was not generally employed and the main interest was in finding the number of formally distinct values a function of n variables takes when the variables were permuted .
12 The pre-season meeting for I'Anson/Miller Cup captains , vice-captains and umpires takes place at Wrecclesham pavilion on Thursday , April 23rd ( not 22nd as originally arranged ) .
13 The look-up speed should be similar to the trie ( although this has not yet been established ) , but build times are much greater , especially for larger lexicons ( for example 5,705 words takes approximately 10 minutes to build , but 68,856 words takes just over 11 hours 3 ) .
14 The look-up speed should be similar to the trie ( although this has not yet been established ) , but build times are much greater , especially for larger lexicons ( for example 5,705 words takes approximately 10 minutes to build , but 68,856 words takes just over 11 hours 3 ) .
15 Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words .
16 The National Trust owns several tracks of land in the area and one of their suggested walks takes in some of the best sights .
17 But you and I both know that applying for a stay of more than six months takes time .
18 As the first fans takes their seats another operation is under way to ensure that some never get to see the game .
19 Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time .
20 As local management of schools takes effect , many of the LEA posts described below are likely to change in character and probably lose some current functions .
21 A fuller discussion of international aspects takes place in Chapter 7 , but it is worth noting that there are cases of companies who entered into export agency agreements when they were small and exporting was relatively unimportant to them .
22 Virtually unchanged since Norman times , the beating of the bounds takes place each time a new member of the family inherits the estate .
23 For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal .
24 After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home .
25 SCOTLAND 'S main teaching union yesterday joined parents and education authorities in strongly doubting Government plans to let headteachers take over the running of schools .
26 The usual procedure in this sort of situation is to act like prisoners and let the guards take us to their leader .
27 If you have doubts take your plan along to the store and get advice .
28 Then you let the words take over where words do it best ’ ( quoted in Lanes , 1981 , p.110 ) .
29 Did heads take in their stride counter-order and confusion in the implementing of the Education Reform Act ?
30 First , do their goals take the Great Commission seriously ?
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