Example sentences of "to take the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first it was necessary to take the village of Longueval : the two positions were considered as one objective , since neither could be held without the other . |
| 2 | But since she was comfortable and occupied she felt no need to take the advantage of her freedom . |
| 3 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 4 | Phillip Leeds ( 29 ) , and Richard Hesworth ( 25 ) resisted well , but the versatile Nigel Roberts took 5–41 off 14 overs to take the man of the match award . |
| 5 | He is able to take the weakness of our present experience and say to our hearts : ‘ Look , do n't despise yourself . |
| 6 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 7 | Because bargaining occurs at the margin there is a tendency in negotiating situations for each party to take the course of action which seems to minimize the disadvantages , rather than to maximize the gains . |
| 8 | The Justice of the Forest was ordered to take the oath of fealty from his woodwards , |
| 9 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 10 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 11 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 12 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 13 | As part of the process of organizing Nova Scotia as a colony more seriously than before , the Acadians were pressed to take the oath of allegiance to George II in accordance with the Treaty of Utrecht , and those who refused were deported to the French settlement in Louisiana . |
| 14 | who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown under the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 , on the ground that he was an atheist and the oath would be meaningless . |
| 15 | When he was nominated for alderman in January 1642 , there was some trouble about his unwillingness to take the oath of supremacy and allegiance , but he was eventually sworn in . |
| 16 | I always remember him turning to Thomas Cromwell about the trial of an abbot who had refused to take the Oath of Supremacy . |
| 17 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 18 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 19 | I re-capped ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to — the Queen . ’ |
| 20 | He remembered the hot burning sands outside Alexandria where he , Sir Brian , Sir Ralph , and the others had been a band of carefree knights only too happy to take the gold of the enemy . |
| 21 | There are rooms booked in the hotel if they want to take the opportunity of visiting relatives but I do n't expect them in Dublin until two days before we play . |
| 22 | ‘ Now the evening 's drawing to a close , and I reckon we ought to take the opportunity of conveying to Jack here the heartiest good wishes of the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club . |
| 23 | Laurent was quick to take the opportunity of correcting his first impressions in several places after Green 's maps were published and Charles Roeder is strong in his contempt . |
| 24 | He — in his little bit , sitting on a different spindly chair — had the presence of mind to take the opportunity of delivering an onslaught on the Snow school of criticism , the stranglehold they have , their implication that there are worthwhile characters who ‘ matter ’ and others that can not have any importance . |
| 25 | This article does not propose to discuss philosophical , practical , theological or moral questions related to this subject but to take the opportunity of examining it in technical detail , as befits those who practise the science of embalming . |
| 26 | She climbed into the front seat , grateful that she did not have to sit beside Doreen , who would be sure to take the opportunity of snuggling up to Silas . |
| 27 | It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now . |
| 28 | Your co–operation would also be appreciated in encouraging parents and local industrialists to take the opportunity of visiting WISE VI , thus giving positive support to the next generation of technologists . |
| 29 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 30 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |