Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 2 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 3 | This question echoes the old debates over the so-called ‘ managerial revolution ’ ( Burnham , Berle and Means ) where salaried personnel were seen to take over the running of firms . |
| 4 | Almost 9 per cent of the men aged between twenty and sixty-four resident in England and Wales during the 1983 survey reported that they were unemployed , and this total excluded those who were waiting to take up jobs . |
| 5 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 6 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 7 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 8 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 9 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 10 | According to close friends , Green issues were beginning to take over her life in a very big way . |
| 11 | The pain and torment were beginning to take over my life . |
| 12 | His responsibilities in Africa ended in 1962 and he moved to take control of the group 's European operations which were beginning to take off . |
| 13 | These days women were allowed to take up the running , but she had n't and now it was too late . |
| 14 | Jewellery replied quickly and Amison and Plant were forced to take on extra defensive duties while at the other end , captain Tony Elkin , brother Kevin and Paul Moran were well in control for Barlaston . |
| 15 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 16 | It was because of this denial of the importance of lesbians and lesbian strength within the organization ( by lesbians as much as heterosexual women ) that heterosexual women were encouraged to take over key positions . |
| 17 | Clinical assessments were estimated to take on average 9.8 minutes for a regular review and 13.4 minutes for an annual review . |
| 18 | He said it was time crack SAS troops were deployed to take out leading members of the IRA . |
| 19 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 20 | Although desiring a diplomatic posting to Venice , Mackenzie was recalled to take over Scottish affairs from Sir Gilbert Elliot , third baronet [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | A general system of multilateral trade and payments became more tenable in the 1950s when the European Payments Union was formed to take over payment settlements between European countries ( including their colonies and dependencies ) . |
| 22 | In 1967 , the British Bliss Classification Association ( BCA ) was formed to take over responsibility for BC ; work began on its revision in 1969 under the editorial direction of Jack Mills . |
| 23 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 24 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 25 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 26 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 27 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 28 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 29 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 30 | Carl was destined to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age . |