Example sentences of "[vb infin] to take the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So smaller investors may need to take the DIY route , which is fine if you have the time and enjoy keeping track of your companies . |
| 2 | think before doing so — do you really need to take the car ? |
| 3 | You will need to take the application to its last stage within a year , which will cost around £120 . |
| 4 | Opposition Members can not wait to take the majority off them . |
| 5 | One Tory veteran , the former headmaster Sir Rhodes Boyson , warned that vigilantes could appear to take the law into their own hands unless the Government took drastic action . |
| 6 | Leading and promoting the debate on energy policy that the government wants to stifle , that presents us with just such an opportunity , if we do n't begin to take the fight to the enemy the future is clear . |
| 7 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |
| 8 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 9 | It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now . |
| 10 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 11 | My Lords , erm I would like to take the opportunity if I may just to refer very briefly to one amendment of mine on page two , line eighteen after the second of insert not less than . |
| 12 | Would you would you like to take the chance ? |
| 13 | Would you like to take the trug from the kitchen cupboard and go and collect them for me ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'd like to take the car , George . ’ |
| 15 | Other knitters with this machine might like to take the precaution of buying a couple of clamps so that the same thing can not happen to them . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you like to take the jeep yourself ? |
| 17 | We do hope to take the board of social responsibility report this afternoon as well and that people might just keep that in mind er because we have still three notices of motion on the panel on doctrine before we reach that . |
| 18 | ‘ I think the public understands the question of giving firefighters a decent living wage and we will hope to take the public with us if there is industrial action . ’ |
| 19 | If Salford does decide to take the money on offer and set up an Alumni I do n't think Convocation should withdraw and sulk . |
| 20 | She said charges of assault were not brought because the victim did not wish to take the matter further . |
| 21 | With the rediscovery within the past 24 hours of the original receipt and , I am informed , the two statements from the youths involved , I am sure that my hon. Friend would wish to take the matter further . |
| 22 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 23 | This evening after dinner you might wish to take the train ( 20 minutes ) in to Amsterdam for an exhilarating evening in what is undoubtedly Europe 's most surprising city . |
| 24 | ‘ But employees can only apply to take the leave in unbusy times for their department and we do n't know yet what the take-up is going to be . ’ |
| 25 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 26 | But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture . |
| 27 | Lastly conservation programmes often fail , and senior bureaucrats may have to take the blame . |
| 28 | But Rita in her own department has got the document that she sends so the researcher does n't have to take the bit of paper round to everybody and get their research approval form signed . |
| 29 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 30 | In fact , of course , we can not even measure what the initial state was , because to do so we would have to take the brain apart . |