Example sentences of "[be] to take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within weeks Combined Operations headquarters were to take on a new vitality . |
| 2 | Russell Reynolds were to take on a not dissimilar problem when their London office headhunted Ian McGregor for British Steel in 1980 . |
| 3 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 4 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 5 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 6 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |
| 7 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 8 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 9 | To make a speech , propose a toast , or write a manifesto is to take on a role and also to impose a role on the receivers . |
| 10 | One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons : |
| 11 | Matthew Gloag & Son is to take on the marketing and sales of Bunnahabhain 12-Year-Old Islay Malt Scotch Whisky . |
| 12 | The last thing an executive search consultant wants to do is to take on an assignment which is not achievable and which he or she can not complete . |
| 13 | An increasingly popular way of starting a new business is to take up a franchise . |
| 14 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 15 | All you have to do then is to take up the handles maintaining line tension , and either take two steps backwards smartly or pull the arms backwards and downwards in a smooth tugging action to set the kite aloft . |
| 16 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 17 | National Transcommunications Ltd , the buyout of the Independent Broadcasting Authority 's engineering and transmitters arm , is to build a cable link between London and Birmingham capable of carrying television and telephone services and has signed a 10-year contract in which the UK 's largest cable television operator , Birmingham Cable Ltd , is to take up the initial capacity ; the line from Birmingham to United Artists ' London South in Croydon will link the two cable-franchise areas , according to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 18 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 19 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 20 | DAVID EVANS , director of Reactor Division , is to take over a new post as director of Reactor Technology , working on BNFL 's input into the Reactor Study Programme being co-ordinated by the Nuclear Utilities Chairmen 's Group for the 1994 Industry Review . |
| 21 | Sealink Stena is to take over the Newhaven — Dieppe service and P & 0 hopes to introduce sailings from Portsmouth to Bilbao in 1993 . |
| 22 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
| 23 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 24 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 25 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 26 | The squadron 's Andover planes will go to East Midlands airport where a private firm is to take over the squadron 's duty checking the accuracy of radar and landing systems on all military aircraft . |
| 27 | Corporate development officer Katharine Hardy will be encouraging companies to show their green credentials by joining the Trust , while Phil Sedwill is to take over the ‘ Greening The Tees Corridor ’ scheme as habitat creation project officer . |
| 28 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
| 29 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |
| 30 | A dependable means of retaining your dog 's attention when it is first let off the leash is to take along a ball or flying disc . |