Example sentences of "[verb] their toll on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unguarded pto shafts , clearing machinery while it is still running , failing to switch off engines , and removing fallen and hung-up trees still exact their toll on the lives of our workforce . |
| 2 | Although points were accrued only from staged ‘ specials ’ — and not from the mind and backside-numbing slogs in between — neither mode was immune from punctures , broken suspension arms or getting lost while the conditions took their toll on the spirit and sprocket alike , tempers fraying as frequently as fan-belts . |
| 3 | The cold , rainy conditions took their toll on the competitors at the Longfield Road Stadium and three race leaders were forced to throw in the towel . |
| 4 | There is growing evidence to suggest , however , that acid deposition and ozone pollution are taking their toll on the UK environment . |
| 5 | Years of pumping iron have taken their toll on the 45-year-old 's body . |
| 6 | But while injury and age have taken their toll on the others , Kapil , at 33 , is still among the world 's most effective paceman . |
| 7 | A loss of compression on both cylinders of the Volvo Penta MD7a — plus some very black sump oil — meant that something was happening inside the engine , and certainly 11 years had taken their toll on the paint on the outside of the block . |
| 8 | Fourteen years of Tory government have taken their toll on the impression , on young people 's impression of trade unions . |
| 9 | Now the reductions in personnel and operating resources are beginning to take their toll on the fifty-year Master Plan to modernise the nineteenth-century Beaux-Arts landmark . |
| 10 | These physical constraints all take their toll on the accuracy , readability and good English of the magazine . |
| 11 | These sorts of activities take their toll on the world immediately around us . |