Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] take [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 17,000 troops from France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , the UK and the USA were expected to take part in the operation . |
| 2 | As a result legislative elections were expected to take place before the end of January 1993 and presidential elections before mid-February . |
| 3 | With the Constitution approved , presidential elections were expected to take place by the end of October and legislative elections were scheduled for the end of December . |
| 4 | Mass rallies commemorating Azerbaijanis killed in Baku in January were permitted to take place by the military authorities controlling the city . |
| 5 | After they 'd finished their lunch Valerie Stevens took her husband off across the field to where a little knot of donkeys were assembling to take part in the donkey derby , an important annual event at the OBEX Family Day . |
| 6 | The first tier was to be based largely on existing counties ; the major changes were destined to take place in the second tier , the district level . |
| 7 | The head of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , Mostafa Tolba , claimed in early September that a Swiss and an Italian company were seeking to take advantage of the civil war in Somalia by dumping toxic waste in that country . |
| 8 | The individuals concerned , including particularly Harold Wilson and Roy Jenkins , were persuaded to take part in the belief that it was to be a serious piece of film-making . |
| 9 | They told me they were going to take control of the ship and become pirates . |
| 10 | and with so much steam coming from the forwards all the signs were that Gloucester were going to take sale to the cleaners … |
| 11 | Members of Convocation Standing Committee were invited to take part in the procession , and were later joined for a marquee lunch by Convocation representatives on Court . |
| 12 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 13 | However , the King stood by his Apothecaries and their independence , although the City did not openly acknowledge them until seven years later , when they were allowed to take part in the river procession on Lord Mayor 's Day , using a hired barge for the occasion , since as yet they lacked funds for such ceremonial trimmings . |
| 14 | Many of the dozens of books that have just been published in the Autumn list were meant to take advantage of the surge of interest caused by the World Cup ; but a few will simply be killed by the rush , lost for ever . |
| 15 | From hundreds of applicants sixty-four people aged from six to eighty were chosen to take part in the show , displaying over 16,000 items from Madonna memorabilia to international airline sickness bags ! |
| 16 | Internment , introduced in August , was intended to take leaders of the IRA out of circulation , but the information on which arrests were made was often out of date or just plain mistaken . |
| 17 | The Iranian reply states that Mr Nezameddin ‘ was collaborating to take action against the national security of the country ’ . |
| 18 | The planking was washed down with Jeyes fluid , and the deck was reopened to take advantage of the increasingly fine weather . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the manufacturing sector , principally textiles , which was suffering from a severe shortage of labour , was expected to take advantage of the Madagascan government 's decision to offer incentives to foreign investors . |
| 20 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 21 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 22 | The agreement , yet to be ratified by the US Congress , was expected to take effect by the end of September . |
| 23 | In each case rebleeding was seen to take place below the staple line , suggesting perhaps that while the oesophageal transection was satisfactory better results could conceivably be obtained with a more radical gastric devascularisation . |
| 24 | An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time . |
| 25 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 26 | IF I WAS GOING TO take money from the public for the privilege of sampling my cooking , I would do it in a pub . |
| 27 | The waiter had retreated now , leaving them alone , and Vass had seated himself once more opposite her and was proceeding to take charge of the pouring of the coffee . |
| 28 | After some of the most tense days in the capital in recent years , a vote on Bill Clinton 's economic plan was scheduled to take place in the House of Representatives on May 27th . |
| 29 | On that occasion the energetic opposition to Henry I 's accession put up by Constance of Arles and her sons created a serious crisis , in the course of which Henry was driven to take refuge at the court of the duke of Normandy . |
| 30 | Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second . |