21.   I said he was a workaholic, and he seemed to take it as a compliment.

22.   I said something about her new hairstyle and she took it as an insult.

23.   I shall take as my starting point a television programme I imagine many of you will have seen recently.

24.   I take it as a compliment when my students ask questions after class.

25.   In everyday economic discourse, nothing is more frequently taken as an index of economic growth than the volume of capital formation.

26.   Indeed, one of the justifications of private property takes as its premise the idea that property ownership confers power.

27.   It had recently withdrawn the ice-breaker Endurance, generally taken as a clear sign of retreat.

28.   It is taken as a compliment because a man with a reputation as dangerous will be respected.

29.   It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society, and of culture itself.

30.   Let us take as an example the Edwardian Era, still well remembered by many living today.