Example sentences of "[noun] to take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yale views the purchase as a long-term commitment and already has plans for new subjects to take the series into the twenty-first century . |
| 2 | Whitley Bay attempt to take the HFS Loans League banner into tonight 's draw at the expense of Preston . |
| 3 | The £113 million attempt to take the company private collapsed in December , when Mr Sugar failed to gain enough votes from independent shareholders . |
| 4 | In 1685 the bloody Battle of Sedgemoor marked the end of the Duke of Monmouth 's attempt to take the throne from James II . |
| 5 | Despite Edward II 's attempt to take the lordships of Blanquefort , Montségur , Lectoure , Dunes and Donzac into his own hands on Régine de Gotb 's death in September 1325 , Armagnac retained his territorial foothold in Plantagenet Aquitaine . |
| 6 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 7 | In Dublin today Charlton will send out the Republic against Northern Ireland in an attempt to take the points that would virtually ensure participation in the World Cup finals next summer in Italy , a feat guaranteed to consolidate his status as a modern Irish hero . |
| 8 | Bartocci made no attempt to take the paper . |
| 9 | After all , I , along with almost every other British journalist in Mexico , had confidently predicted that England would reach the World Cup final for the second consecutive time and stubbornly resist Brazil 's attempt to take the trophy from them . |
| 10 | Her father encouraged Edward to take the freedom- and country-loving Helen on one of his famous long walks in and around London and Surrey commons . |
| 11 | There was even a tow-ball , for which we bought a carrier to take the bike . |
| 12 | Claudio Notarbartolo beat three other national finalists to take the Masterchef 1991 title , sponsored by British Meat Catering Service and Dudson Brothers . |
| 13 | In the garden , her sister drove ferociously at the root of a weed clump with her fork , allowing her aching back and legs to take the place of thought . |
| 14 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 15 | A promised Mercedes to take the couple to All Saints in Deganwy was sold without Joanne and Maurice being told . |
| 16 | They found out other marvellous arts to take the place of tricks and old stories . |
| 17 | Making overtures towards another who mirrored our own disquieting and long-buried Chinese identity was both a fearful and exciting prospect , and neither of us quite got up the nerve to take the initiative . |
| 18 | Advocates of state ‘ collectivism ’ very rarely wished government action to take the place of self-help , philanthropy and the duty to work , but rather to supplement and reinforce these attributes . |
| 19 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , I believe that actually it should be the responsibility of the officers of an association to take the responsibility . |
| 21 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 22 | As our second day dawned with a cloudless sky I could n't wait to get back out and explore more of the Dorset countryside — this time with a horse to take the strain . |
| 23 | Up to the previous evening there had been questions bandied back and forth between Aggie and Ben as to whether , after all , it would be necessary for Millie to take the post she had been offered . |
| 24 | This easing of border controls appeared to be an attempt by officials on both sides of the frontier to take the heat out of demands , expressed since the December 1989 Romanian revolution most vociferously by radical supporters of the Moldavian Popular Front , for Soviet Moldavia 's reunification with Romania . |
| 25 | The tedium and discomfort of life which prevailed between moments of action and danger , and the feeling that they would never be strong enough in morale or matériel to take the offensive themselves , were dispelled when Montgomery took command of the Eighth Army later in the summer . |
| 26 | Krumhaar 's examination was completed by Wednesday and on the following day the court was adjourned once again , leaving only one more prosecution witness to take the stand . |
| 27 | These jobs were soon done , and Redpath telephoned for a police car to take the cartridges and clothes to their respective experts . |
| 28 | Foreign tours , far from being powered by a love of hard currency and routine displays of the standard Russian repertoire , have brought the unfamiliar to western audiences : it was typical of Gergiev 's driving force to take the Mussorgsky experience complete to last year 's Edinburgh Festival , and a fund-raising gala at Covent Garden , a four-hour marathon squeezed between a dozen Palermo Prince Igors , included a firm statement of future policies , with a galvanizing glimpse of Tchaikovsky 's The Enchantress , scenes from Iolanta and Mazeppa , and arias from Sadko and May Night ( Rimsky looks set for the Gergiev treatment soon ) . |
| 29 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 30 | People from all over the world have visited Buxton to take the waters , including such celebrities as Noel Coward and Douglas Fairbanks , Jnr . |