Example sentences of "of [noun] [that] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 2 | In other words , I wanted to study the members ( and their parents and other persons ) as individuals ; I wanted to study the kinds of interactions that took place when they took account of each other ( Weber , 1947 , p. 88 ) ; and , at a more abstract level than most of the participants would be aware of , I wanted to note sociological phenomena such as power structures , communication networks and the unintended consequences of the beliefs and practices of the movement . |
| 3 | The overall set of operations that take place when an indexed sequential file is directly processed is shown in Fig. 7.21 . |
| 4 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 5 | There was a whole lot of paper getting there , getting papers and someone else but the lady in red actually was getting groceries as well so of course that takes time . |
| 6 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 7 | Drachenfels found that he who listened correctly could see , hear , smell and even taste every act of wickedness that took place within the chambers and warrens of the building . |
| 8 | The water cycle is often depicted as a simple system of circulation that takes water from the sea as vapour , deposits it on land as rain or snow and returns it quickly to the sea by way of rivers . |
| 9 | But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket . |
| 10 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 11 | What matters more than time is the number of transactions that take place . |
| 12 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 13 | One of the reasons for this improvement was the radical shift in the status quo of broadcasting that took place in November 1982 , when the new fourth channel went on the air . |
| 14 | No , I think that erm you 'll be relieved of a lot of duties that took a lot of time and this will give you more leisure time to have your personal contacts and sport and other pleasure activities . |
| 15 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 16 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 17 | For just £15 you can give them a set of springs that take just an hour or two to fit under each key and make the keyboard so much bouncier . |
| 18 | Would it be possible for the Civil Service college to illustrate , by means of that example , what should not happen , and to demonstrate the amount of abuse that took place at that point in our history ? |
| 19 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 20 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 21 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 22 | They reveal the lively interchange of ideas that took place , including the expansion and development of Watkins ' original work . |
| 23 | The Status software programme was designed to avoid the kind of accident that took place at Three Mile Island in the US , where shift workers faced with a breakdown in equipment switched to substitute systems , unaware that they had been taken out of service by a previous system . |
| 24 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 25 | As its influence expanded , it began to promote a model of evolution that took far greater account of geographical factors . |
| 26 | If you have an ordinary video recorder which does not have ‘ backspace ’ or ‘ fine edit ’ , you will probably have noticed , when changing from one recording to the next , that for a while the picture is spoilt by various forms of disturbance that take several seconds to clear . |
| 27 | There was a lot of underlying violence in Rufus , and not all that underlying either , a lion-like aggression in times of stress that took the form of a whooping , destructive merriment . |
| 28 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 29 | The inquest which followed proved to be an intensive training ground for the young Hearn and she emerged strong and more confident , with the sort of knowledge that takes years to acquire . |
| 30 | There was the faintest of breezes that took away some of the heat , making it beautifully cool . |