Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gales and hard winters followed , including one severe ice-storm which welded coppiced small-leaved lime branches to the ground — where they promptly took root . |
| 2 | Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure . |
| 3 | The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 . |
| 4 | The hope on the part of the Berkeley Software contingent that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it finally takes Unix Labs over may turn out to be a forlorn one . |
| 5 | There are countless books and pamphlets on chairmanship but the words do not amount to much until you actually take charge . |
| 6 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 7 | If one simply takes age and sex distributions , there are , therefore , substantial differences between various ethnic minorities . |
| 8 | There was much criticism of the time taken up in the Commons by these devolution measures , and also of the careless drafting of two bills which were likely to produce a legal and constitutional nightmare if they ever took effect . |
| 9 | if it ever takes place , and also Les who 's the chief engineer effectively at Dunstable . |
| 10 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 11 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 12 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 13 | Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back . |
| 14 | Florida 's Supreme Court ruled the men had no right to privacy because they willingly took part in criminal activities . |
| 15 | No breakfast , because he never took breakfast . |
| 16 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 17 | Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home . |
| 18 | Personally I think whoever wrote the prospectus of Kidminster Green should be taken to court and charged with ‘ Gross Deceit of Parents and Pupils ’ because what actually takes place in the first twenty minutes of the school day bears absolutely no relation to what the prospectus claims should happen . |
| 19 | While they generally take care to express such formulations in the language of reason , justice and humanitarian concern that will command consent , they also take care that very little creeps into those formulations that will seriously impede their exercise of power . |
| 20 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 21 | My initial thoughts that the process of filming during the meetings and workshops might inhibit the participants from speaking their minds , was quickly dispelled when I later took part in several workshops at Highlander and discovered ( with some amazement ) , that the camera crew quickly became ‘ invisible ’ as people got their teeth into the subject matter . |
| 22 | ( This is one event I have not seen personally , as it only takes place every seven years , the next being due in 1990. ) the last perambulation took place in August 1983 , with about 500 people taking part in the fourteen mile walk . |
| 23 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |