Example sentences of "his [noun] to take [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 2 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 3 | His refusal to take seriously the possibility of a confirmation theory , for example , can easily lead one to believe that he is closing his eyes to important normative issues . |
| 4 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | CAMBRIDGE 'S caretaker-manager Gary Johnson is being backed by his players to take on the job full-time . |
| 6 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |