Example sentences of "[noun] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air . |
| 2 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 3 | It was natural , therefore , that when the ancestors of plaice and sole took to the sea bottom , they should have lain on one side rather than on the belly like the ancestors of skates and rays . |
| 4 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 5 | I am sure they would see that queues of slow moving traffic soon build up and drivers take to the town to get through . |
| 6 | With two new atoms added to the previous five , the children tackled harder problems ( ‘ How many different CFC molecules can you invent with these model atoms ’ ? ) , and towards the end of the two year trial they had become familiar enough with valencies and weights to take to the Periodic Table idea enthusiastically . |
| 7 | She found herself gazing , for minutes on end , at photographs of young men in their flying kit , waiting for the command to take to the skies . |
| 8 | Initial returns indicated the re-election of President Joaquín Balaguer , 83 , of the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , but on May 18 his long-time rival , Juan Bosch , 81 , of the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , accused the government of " colossal fraud " and urged his supporters to take to the streets in protest . |
| 9 | As Frank takes to the skies in a light aircraft , his instructor collapses from a heart attack , and Frank bounces the plane off a road , sticks his leg out , spirals from 3,000 feet to a mere 250 feet , and narrowly misses the control tower . |
| 10 | The following Sunday a group of pest control technicians took to the field , all kitted out ready to ‘ show Rank Hovis how to play football ’ . |
| 11 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 12 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 13 | Central News South took to the airwaves in January nineteen eighty-nine and tomorrow night we look back over our first four years . |
| 14 | Cozy Powell need lose no sleep as Alan took to the drums like , well , like a Parliamentary candidate takes to drums . |
| 15 | On Saturday 28 September , some of the hardiest souls in London and the surrounding environs took to the footpaths of Battersea Park , got cold(s) , wet , mentally tested and later drunk as they contested the 1991 Amnesty Sponsored Quiz Quest . |
| 16 | Thirteen people were killed and 1-500 injured as celebrating Filipinos took to the streets , and a further five were killed and 100 arrested in Sydney . |
| 17 | Still today virtually all insects at some stage of their lives take to the air . |
| 18 | On trial — Fast afloat boat prototype takes to the water |
| 19 | Add the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN masterminded ROLLERCOASTER package takes to the highways and student halls of America , what was once a moulding musical chrysalid on its underpowered UK outing earlier this year has verily pupated into a sun-blocking butterfly of excellence — or so reckons a well and truly won-over ANDREW COLLINS . |
| 20 | There 's no game for Oxford this weekend so the next time the team takes to the field they 'll be under new management … |
| 21 | The population of Tor Yvresse is less than half what the city was built to accommodate and the wide boulevards seem empty even when the entire population takes to the streets during the great Festival of Masques . |
| 22 | The young urban loyalists took to the streets : |
| 23 | When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason–Dixon line was complete late in 1766 , they began on the Royal Society 's behalf , at Dixon 's suggestion , to measure a degree of the meridian on the Delmarva peninsula in Maryland and to make gravity measurements with a clock sent out by the Society , the same one that Maskelyne had had in St Helena and Dixon took to the Cape in 1761 . |
| 24 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 25 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 26 | In Arab East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied territories , Palestinians took to the streets in celebration . |
| 27 | Gloucester 's slalom racing team took to the slopes for the first in August coach Chantelle is a former all England champion |
| 28 | North Tees Health Authority 's promotion team took to the streets of Stockton inviting townsfolk to toast each other in vitamin high , but alcohol-free fruit cocktails . |
| 29 | Armed civilians , Islamic militiamen and pro-Khomeini troops took to the streets to take control of other military installations . |
| 30 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |