Example sentences of "be take [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one aspect that art historian and critic Deborah Cherry will be taking up in the next issue . |
| 2 | A small firm may feel vulnerable and unable to compete effectively and look to be taken over , though with an agreement that those of its partners who do not retire should be taken on by the new firm . |
| 3 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 4 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 5 | Thatcher said that the UK was ‘ financially sound ’ , there was a ban on overtime ( voluntary ) on British Rail ; the US was organising sanctions against Poland for daring to be taken over by the military and the Social Science Research Council , to muffled cheers and sobs , got a £1 million cut . |
| 6 | Neither , however , was complete withdrawal of the French from Indo-China for , as it was assumed that in all likelihood Indo-China would be taken over by the militant communist group , at best there might follow a transition period marked by chaos and terrorist activities , which would then create a political vacuum into which the Chinese inevitably would be drawn or pushed . |
| 7 | A paper long allied to the Liberal tradition had been allowed to be taken over by the right-wing Mail . |
| 8 | A secret valley that 's never been open to the public could soon be taken over by the National Trust . |
| 9 | The lower floor is to become a Regional Railways office and train crew depot , while the upper floor will be taken over by the Welsh Tourist Board . |
| 10 | SMR 's role was to be taken over by the Shackleton-equipped Maritime Operational Training Unit at Kinloss and the unit was scheduled to disband in September 1956 with the remaining Lancs being ferried to Wroughton to await their fate . |
| 11 | Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years . |
| 12 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |
| 13 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 14 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 15 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 16 | As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate . |
| 17 | As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection . |
| 18 | — Developing an analysis of society and the Church which will isolate the key tasks which should be taken up by the prophetic sector in the Church . |
| 19 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 20 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 21 | The colonic epithelial cell is probably the major site of acetylation of 5-ASA when the drug is delivered in an appropriate way to the colon , and as the N-acetyltransferase enzyme is cytosolic , 5-ASA must be taken up by the epithelial cell before acetylation can take place . |
| 22 | This theme will be taken up in the next section . |
| 23 | As most of these zones are in Third World countries , these issues will be taken up in the next chapter . |
| 24 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 25 | If the magnetic flux density is constant over the whole loop then B may be taken out of the integral sign , and the remaining integration yields zero . |
| 26 | As you know Mr Mayor , we are inside the chamber , do n't believe in spending any more than is absolutely necessary in any part of any budget so rather than spend any extra money we are proposing an extra twenty thousand be taken out of the public conveniences budget . |
| 27 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 28 | By its membership , the central committee was the coming together of regional committees to discuss common strategies , which would then be taken back to the regional committees for further discussion . |