Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A classic problem is posed by asking what form radiant energy takes up when confined in a container ( or cavity , to use the time-hallowed language of statistical physics ) whose walls are black . |
| 2 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 3 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 4 | After a year of arguments , Citrine finally relented and the EDA 's local work was taken on and expanded by the Area Boards , though its London headquarters , with a staff of 67 , survived as a formally separate organisation but with its £150000 annual budget financed principally by the industry . |
| 5 | Their involvement in those parts of the management plan in which they have not been previously interested will be taken on and driven by the possibly irresistible surge of the whole school 's development . |
| 6 | Taken in and taught by rancher Turnstall , he turns into a raging avenger when Turnstall is shot . |
| 7 | The complete word is taken in and segmented into individual characters or strokes ( e.g. ( Higgins & Whitrow , 1984 ) , ( Wright , 1989 ) ) . |
| 8 | As her natural mother had been unable to care for her , she had been taken in and looked after by an uncle and aunt . |
| 9 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 10 | The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind . |
| 11 | and erm and erm I would really formally ask the board if , if there is any objection to our deliberations being recorded and taken down and used for another purpose . |
| 12 | ‘ I ought to make it quite clear to you , ma'am , ’ he murmured in the taxi , ‘ that any knickers you may be wearing may well be taken down and used in evidence . ’ |
| 13 | That left two days of filming available before the sets had to be taken down and returned to the owners . |
| 14 | In Florence , for example , statues have been taken down and housed in museums with replicas being put in their place . |
| 15 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 16 | It was agreed that Cell-y-bedd should be taken down and rebuilt in the form of an apse on the foundations found in 1958 . |
| 17 | One child might easily be taken along or left with a babysitter . |
| 18 | A major factor that has contributed to this has been the process of acquisition , by which firms get taken over and merged into larger companies . |
| 19 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 20 | Before the wooden boat sank , however , her crew were taken off and treated with the utmost courtesy by Kapitän Leutnant F.K. Paul , who accepted the ML 's surrender : a tribute he paid to a gallant foe , and evidence if this is needed that chivalry is the prerogative of individuals , not nations . |
| 21 | A red biplane from Crowfield had taken off and gone into a loop when he came out of the loop he could n't pull the plane level and he crashed into a field . |
| 22 | Now I I think I would like to ask the county to come in and deal with this question of how much of their forty one thousand two hundred is new build and how much is gon na be taken up or provided by the conversion . |
| 23 | For many this was the highlight of the day , once all had settled the singing would begin and this time all with full voice , songs like " One man went to mow " , " Ten green bottles " and " I 'm happy when I 'm hiking " would be taken up and echoed along the route , and arriving back in Halling we would be encouraged into one mighty effort to let all at home know that we were back , safe if somewhat tired , overfed and happy . |
| 24 | There seem to be strong parallels between energy in the body and energy in the landscape and , in the early 1970s , John Wheaton put forward in The Ley Hunter the idea of ‘ Earth Acupuncture ’ subsequently taken up and developed by Tom Graves . |
| 25 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 26 | His points have been taken up and expanded by others . |
| 27 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 28 | Schumpeter stressed , for example , that unless a social grievance is taken up and incorporated into party political debate by politicians , then it may well lie dormant for decades — no matter how strongly most citizens feel about the issue . |
| 29 | This is very attractive farmland , wide open fields , very intensively farmed , erm it 's very difficult to spot the aerodrome from driving round the area at all , erm some of it 's been taken up and incorporated into fields . |
| 30 | Draining peatbogs to plant trees releases more carbon dioxide than can ever be taken up and stored by the planted trees , according to a report by Friends of the Earth . |