Example sentences of "persuade [art] [noun] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 2 | It was of course pure selfishness , as having persuaded the Girls to take up a short-lived career which he dominated in a exceedingly paternalistic manner , he did not remain a father figure when that career was about to finish . |
| 3 | The policy relied on the government being able to meet its borrowing requirements through persuading the public to take up successive issues of government loan stock and through internal ( or technically known as departmental ) support . |
| 4 | In addition , where the landlord pays an inducement to the tenant in order to persuade the tenant to take up the lease , that is a payment on which the tenant must account for VAT ( Nevile Russell v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [ 1987 ] VATTR 194 ) . |
| 5 | The difficulties of persuading a businessman to take on the running of such an ailing industry — it was losing at a rate of £2m. a day — and handle its relationship with the Government and the unions was exacerbated by the comparatively low salary on offer . |
| 6 | DJ Simon Wedgewood coaxed six student couples from Cardiff University under the spotlight and , in a variation of Blind Man 's Bluff , persuaded the men to take off their shirts which were put in a heap on the dancefloor . |
| 7 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |