Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 2 | I have a , a you know , which was too full , too thick , too full , so I thought I , I open a bit and took it out , so I have to find a place for it . . |
| 3 | Alternatively we accept a direction but take no action in that direction until we are sufficiently tempted to do so . |
| 4 | Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room . |
| 5 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 6 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 7 | The SLD members claimed the location of the proposed bridge would act as a drain and take employment away from the region to the Lothians as well as creating an ‘ environmental disaster ’ on both sides of the river . |
| 8 | Then I took my bag into a loo and took everything off and changed into clean clothes . |
| 9 | The unit plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC and takes its supply from the computer . |
| 10 | After three days , when scouring had stopped , she was tagged , put in a sack and taken to a field which a neighbour was certain her siblings frequented . |
| 11 | He crouched like a skier and took off , shooting down the ice field and zooming off into space , turning leisurely somersaults in the great fall , bouncing off rocks like a dummy in an adventure film . |
| 12 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 13 | This application is of benefit for queries to a computer that take place over a telephone and also for providing reading aids for the blind . |
| 14 | Cross a field and take the track towards New Barn Farm before heading down the footpath on the left signed Chillerton . |
| 15 | If Z is a parameter that takes intergenerational differences in heritability into account then HZ denotes the parental heritability . |
| 16 | When the male of the group dies , the biggest female in the harem quickly changes into a male and takes over the group . |
| 17 | And at Cantley in the same diocese the vicar thought it was worth making some comment on a baptism that took place on 12 October 1754 : |
| 18 | Of a dive that took her 1,250 feet down to the floor of the Pacific , Sylvia Earle said , ‘ The light was faint but , when my eyes adjusted , the world I saw was incredibly beautiful . |
| 19 | Angrily he crushed her mouth harder against his as he plundered her lips with a ferocity that took her breath away . |
| 20 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 21 | Erm now this present report is no longer necessary erm because paragraph three is now no longer accurate erm , because a change that took place in the General Assembly Executive Committee last the week before last . |
| 22 | Indeed honours were shared all the way to a tie-break in which Adebisi was able to switch up a gear and take a firm hold of the situation , winning 7–2 , to take the first set . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) . |
| 24 | That there is strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence , at least in some of its forms , can not in my view be doubted . |
| 25 | She put everything into a carrier and took this out to the car with his overnight case , and then she came back to get him into his shoes and his coat . |
| 26 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 27 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 28 | He was tied to the back of a horse and taken to Edinburgh , where he was tried , convicted and hanged . |
| 29 | I get into a carriage and take Berlioz out of my briefcase . |
| 30 | Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received . |