Example sentences of "[be] to take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An editor 's directions to the writer of an article may be to take a populist approach , suitable for a wide audience . |
| 2 | This suggests that a good test would be to take a potent scientific innovation and compare its reception in Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 3 | But in Britain things were to take a new and not unexpected turn . |
| 4 | The activities of MIR and others associated with clandestine operations were to take a separate , but not unrelated , course mainly from the activities of the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) . |
| 5 | If Andrew Morton , the paparazzi , the Press and the public were to take a similar interest in your marriage or mine , I 'm sure it would n't be difficult for them to pinpoint dramatic cracks in our relationships . |
| 6 | Soon , however , events were to take a different turn . |
| 7 | El Cid 's future seemed anything but happy , yet events were to take a dramatic turn in the months ahead . |
| 8 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 9 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 10 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 11 | One of his ideas had been to take a small naval party with him who would attempt to scuttle a ship in the harbour mouth . |
| 12 | The next stage is to take a long , hard look at yourself . |
| 13 | An alternative selection method which generally avoids this problem is to take a systematic selection of 2 from the range 1 to 586 . |
| 14 | Another proposal is to take a double-decker bus to areas of greatest need , determined by consultation with local community visitors , health visitors and social workers . |
| 15 | Mr Clinton 's nature is to take a cautious , collegial course . |
| 16 | Sitting pretty : Eddie George , who is to take a five-year pay freeze as new governor of the Bank of England |
| 17 | ‘ The automatic reaction is to take a mobile service to the villages but if a Citizens Advice Bureau van appeared no one would use it because the neighbours would see . ’ |
| 18 | His intention is to take a complete break from the game for three years to concentrate on his business as a grain buyer . |
| 19 | One way is to take a cross-sectional X-ray picture of the tree with computer tomography . |
| 20 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 21 | The alternative , if it is contemplated that fees will be incurred during the life of the trust , is to take a separate deed of covenant from the husband and the wife , or either of them , whereby they or one of them agree to discharge the fees concerned . |
| 22 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 23 | One proposal is to take a 2-kg piece of tellurium and leave this for a year ; tellurium is chosen because it transmutes into xenon , which is unreactive and relatively easy to detect . |
| 24 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 25 | One route is to take a hostile view of takeovers involving the absorption of a domestic firm by a foreign buyer , since takeover is often the best method for a potential competitor to get an initial share in the domestic market . |
| 26 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 27 | The remedy is to take a juicy example and pull it to bits yourself . |
| 28 | GLENYS Kinnock is to take a big step towards achieving her political goal of becoming a Euro MP when on December 18 she will appear on Radio 4 's Any Questions for the first time . |
| 29 | To import them is to take a huge risk . |
| 30 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |