Example sentences of "to take the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thenceforward I was always wanting to take the joys of solitude and of society in their extreme forms , and was alternatively miserable from the lack of company or the presence of uncongenial company . |
| 32 | The third aspect of the egalitarian feminist address to sex differences psychology is that it is increasingly trying to take the diversity of these differences into account . |
| 33 | A different response to the issues of " relevance " , and perhaps the more common one within higher education from the 1960s , was to take the degree of " adequacy " of literary awareness to be the measure of the individual student 's " intelligence " or " maturity " . |
| 34 | For disability rights reform , it might be thought sufficient to take the framework of the British discrimination statutes , add the terms ‘ disability ’ and ‘ disabled person ’ where appropriate , and supply a definition of the newly protected class . |
| 35 | On the north and south are enormous buttresses to take the thrust of the great pendentives and the main arches of the piers . |
| 36 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 37 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 38 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
| 39 | But it undoubtedly does fall to N C V O and rightly so , to take the responsibility of representing the interests of the sector on a range of general issues . |
| 40 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 41 | But flying accidents were to take the lives of young airmen beyond that date . |
| 42 | On the other hand if particular property is shown to belong to one partner , then only he is entitled to take the benefit of increased worth . |
| 43 | Accordingly , he will be unable to take the benefit of any fall in the index . |
| 44 | Anything to take the presence of the Hon. |
| 45 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 46 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 47 | Eamonn Melaugh told the mayor that he would have to take the consequences of any violence caused in trying to clear the chamber . |
| 48 | Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission . |
| 49 | The Profitboss is prepared to take the consequences of refusal . |
| 50 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 51 | The capture of Pochala by government forces in March enabled them by April 4 to take the towns of Kongor and Bor . |
| 52 | The butt end of the pike was fitted with an iron shoe which could be grounded to take the shock of a charge , and the metal strips along the shaft ( sometimes as much as 20 feet long though usually around 10 feet ) acted as protection against sword cuts . |
| 53 | Colin McRae winner in Nez Zealand starts as favourite to take the Rally of Malaysia … |
| 54 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Are you going to take the word of a prisoner over mine ? ’ snarled Nicholson . |
| 56 | Concerning costs , it has been reported in the financial press that FIMBRA merely had to take the word of Dunsdale that it was investing in gilts , as the SRO had too few staff to adequately deal with each individual firm . |
| 57 | Thus s.309 of the Companies Act 1985 does not regard the interests of the employees and the shareholders of the company as irrecon-cilably opposed , expecting the directors to be able to take the interests of the employees into account whilst performing their duties to the company , including the shareholders . |
| 58 | When the Duke of Buccleugh offered to take the whole of his losses on himself he said , ‘ I will involve no friend , rich or poor — my own right hand shall do it . ’ |
| 59 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 'm physically in good enough shape to take the excitement of the ride , ’ he said , raising his glass to her . |