Example sentences of "to take [adv prt] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They become confused about their role and sometimes attempt to take on that of managers themselves . |
| 2 | Japan , especially , is likely to be pressured to take on more of the burden sharing . |
| 3 | Anyway , with the Soviet threat on the wane and the Europeans proposing to take on more of the burden that is left , the cost to the United States of staying on in Europe will henceforth be smaller . |
| 4 | Ideally , there should be more comprehensive information on housing need and the supply of dwellings across all tenures ( particularly if local authorities are to take on more of an enabling role ) . |
| 5 | Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark : |
| 6 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 7 | Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible . |
| 8 | It might be an idea to take down some of those trees . |
| 9 | Principal Hotels signed a deal to take over six of the 12 Crown Hotels which went into receivership in April . |
| 10 | He will then be in a good position to take over much of the rest of the property when his parents die . |
| 11 | Sunrise got the go-ahead for its new station after striking a deal with another radio station , Midland Radio , to take over one of its frequencies . |
| 12 | A MYSTERY buyer is to take over one of Edinburgh 's leading shopping centres . |
| 13 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 14 | Although the government found the ‘ service city ’ far from satisfactory , it was not until Catherine II 's reign that centrally appointed officials began to take over many of these functions . |
| 15 | I did ask whether the Association of Chief Police Officers have been told that they are going to they are likely to have to take over many of the responsibilities of the British Transport Police as from the first of April . |
| 16 | For example , it is possible now for word processors with spelling checkers to take over some of the proof-reading aspects of writing and to produce impeccable print-out . |
| 17 | They would spend the day in the classroom with the class teacher , observing and assisting , and gradually learning to take over some of the lessons ; at the same time pursuing their own studies . |
| 18 | The Commission had taken seriously its constitutional role of initiating proposals , and seemed poised to take over some of the work load allotted by the treaty to the Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | The solution was to take over some of the unconverted part of the attic . |
| 20 | The announcement of his departure came just one day after Barclays revealed that it is to look outside the bank for a new chief executive to take over some of the powers presently held by chairman and chief executive , Andrew Buxton . |
| 21 | Some of those subsidies went into persuading Daimler-Benz to take over most of Germany 's aerospace industry ( see page 87 ) , by guaranteeing it against some future losses risked in making Airbuses . |
| 22 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 23 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 24 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 25 | His group backed in particular an immediate ban on exports to the Third World — ‘ while accepting our moral responsibility … to take back some of that waste so that it can be recycled or dealt with in an environmentally friendly way which is not possible in the Third World ’ . |
| 26 | You desperately needed to see me , maybe even to take back some of the things you said ? ’ |
| 27 | Judging from what your great-aunt used to say about you , I am sure you are as good as Jenny , and I would be glad for you to take out any of the animals . |