Example sentences of "[noun sg] to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON 'S faltering attempt to take over Manchester United looked in deep trouble last night after Martin Edwards , United 's controlling shareholder , began legal procedings against 37-year-old Knighton for alleged breach of confidentiality . |
| 2 | In Dublin today Charlton will send out the Republic against Northern Ireland in an attempt to take the points that would virtually ensure participation in the World Cup finals next summer in Italy , a feat guaranteed to consolidate his status as a modern Irish hero . |
| 3 | Whitley Bay attempt to take the HFS Loans League banner into tonight 's draw at the expense of Preston . |
| 4 | But the logic of punk 's evangelistic drive to change things led to a attempt to take demystification to the people : the pop deconstruction of ABC ( exposing pop 's stage managing , as on the sleeve of The Lexicon of Love ) and Scritti Politti ( affirming and unravelling , simultaneously , the lover 's non-sensical discourse ) . |
| 5 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 6 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |
| 7 | Also in his favour was the demeanour of his mount , for although Mandarin must have felt horribly unbalanced he made no attempt to take advantage of this unwonted freedom and run away . |
| 8 | After all , I , along with almost every other British journalist in Mexico , had confidently predicted that England would reach the World Cup final for the second consecutive time and stubbornly resist Brazil 's attempt to take the trophy from them . |
| 9 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 10 | The Joan Collins syndrome is one way of summing up the present attempt to take ten to fifteen years off the way women look . |
| 11 | In 1685 the bloody Battle of Sedgemoor marked the end of the Duke of Monmouth 's attempt to take the throne from James II . |
| 12 | Greene King failed in its attempt to take over Morland ; it now owns a 29.32% stake in the Thames Valley brewer . |
| 13 | At that the father gives up his attempt to take an active role , humbles himself , but repeats his grief in his apology : |
| 14 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 15 | In 1973 the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society of London sponsored a comprehensive survey of the Asian elephant , one of the most important aspects of which was an attempt to take a census of the population still remaining in the wild . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's my job ’ , is her prompt response to any attempt to take over tasks she wants to do herself . |
| 18 | Shared Action Planning ( Brechin and Swain , 1986 , 1987 ) is an attempt to take up this challenge . |
| 19 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 20 | Despite Edward II 's attempt to take the lordships of Blanquefort , Montségur , Lectoure , Dunes and Donzac into his own hands on Régine de Gotb 's death in September 1325 , Armagnac retained his territorial foothold in Plantagenet Aquitaine . |
| 21 | The law 's requirement for information on entry is an attempt to take account of the variety of policies operated by schools . |
| 22 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa 's involvement in Kentish affairs in 764–5 was short-lived , either a response to or an attempt to take advantage of a particular crisis — almost certainly the emergence of so many rival rulers in Kent in the immediately preceding period- and that the advent of Ecgberht terminated it . |
| 23 | It provided for nationalization of forests , the sale of some state-owned industries to provide money for agricultural development , some worker participation in prophet sharing , revision of electoral laws ( including significant rights for women ) , the formation of a Literacy Corps in an attempt to take education to the countryside and . |
| 24 | Crosse was approached by Captain Thomas Lee [ q.v. ] to participate in an attempt to take Queen Elizabeth hostage . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , he had once used Rain in an attempt to take his mind off Vanessa . |
| 26 | Outside the corridors the 15-year-old civil war between the government and the MNR continued with its accustomed brutality as the rebels mounted attacks in an attempt to take over positions previously controlled by the Zimbabwean army . |
| 27 | On April 17 , disregarding Nguza 's order that it should refrain from any attempt to take over the running of the country , the conference adopted sovereign status , and on April 21 the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya was confirmed as chairman of the conference [ see p. 38662 for his election in December 1991 ] . |
| 28 | Barely two weeks after the Jarama carnage , Franco launched what was to be the last Nationalist attempt to take Madrid , with an attack to the north-east of the city , in the province of Guadalajara . |
| 29 | It is part of their attempt to take some of the mystique out of scientific knowledge that ’ can be used , either intentionally or unintentionally , to prevent the public from questioning ’ ( The Sanitary Protection Scandal ) . |
| 30 | Bartocci made no attempt to take the paper . |