Example sentences of "[noun sg] to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 2 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 3 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 4 | On April 17 , disregarding Nguza 's order that it should refrain from any attempt to take over the running of the country , the conference adopted sovereign status , and on April 21 the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya was confirmed as chairman of the conference [ see p. 38662 for his election in December 1991 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 6 | This is what I 'll do — an injection to take away the pain and reduce the bruising and a few tablets for you to give today and tomorrow . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 8 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |
| 9 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 10 | Association chairman , Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate that Orient were prepared to allow a man of Frank 's talent to take on the job . ’ |
| 11 | The dismantlers get inside the car to take out the interior trim , seats , dashboard and steering wheel which are all segregated into bins for different plastics and materials . |
| 12 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 13 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 14 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 15 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 16 | Mullins , who moved to the North-East to take over the kennels of the late Tom Whitfield in November after working as head lad for his mother , Linda Mullins , in Essex , gets the award after providing 15 winners from 61 runners , an average of 26.6pc . |
| 17 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 18 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 19 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 20 | Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities . |
| 21 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 22 | Cato 's obdurate hostility and determination to take over the Auvergnat diocese , however , led to a hardening of lines , and Cautinus began to persecute Cato and his followers . |
| 23 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 24 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 25 | Suspended in a harness against a spiralling screen , he asks a hypnotherapist to take away the pain of loving someone who does not love him : to detox him . |
| 26 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 27 | ‘ If my brother Reg wants to buy them he must come up with the money , but there are a number of interested parties , individuals and consortiums who have expressed a desire to take over the club . ’ |
| 28 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 29 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |