Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppression of unions also enabled Japanese textile firms in West Java to systematically take on ‘ probationers ’ for two years and then sack them just before they were entitled to become permanent staff . |
| 2 | They had condemned the deportations and renewed attacks on Britain 's refusal to actively take in refugees . |
| 3 | Optimistically , the company says it expects the business to really take off once NeXTstep ships for Intel platforms later this year . |
| 4 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 5 | It was easier for the man that came round with the Cooperative lorry to just take tokens |
| 6 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 7 | FENASTRAS was the first trade union federation to really take the question of women 's rights seriously . |
| 8 | Anselm Kiefer , who never allows abstraction to completely take over his imagery , shows new pieces at Goodman . |
| 9 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 10 | If they can go around , for instance , and pick off all our key accounts and use their dominant route structure to effectively take all our principle clients away er we wo n't have any anybody flying on our planes , so er so we 've got to strike quickly , erm you know relatively soon after they started this new attack to make sure that it erm it er it does n't get does n't get out of control . |
| 11 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for North East Essex , is pressing the Government to reverse its policy of controlled retreat , which allows the sea to gradually take its natural course . |
| 12 | It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track . |
| 13 | I perhaps have worked out , I need a clerical assistant and so forth , I might need a small van to actually take my widget on a Friday , to Widget , or Big Widget factory , or whatever it is I do with these widgets . |
| 14 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 15 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 16 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 17 | And if the job was only at say er tender let stage to only take seventy percent of the fee , |