Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | did succeed in persuading Croydon Corporation to let them work their tramways on a lease and shortly afterwards , they had the opportunity to take over two new tramway schemes , outside but adjoining Croydon boundaries . |
2 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
3 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
4 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
5 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
6 | At night the boiler took over , roaring and trembling until dawn . |
7 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
8 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
9 | Shiver as the shit took over , nudged her open , swelled , dropped softly out . |
10 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
11 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
12 | It is a scheme that is er , an alternative to placement in children 's homes , for adolescents with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties , erm , whereby er , specialist er , foster parents er , are , are , recruited , they are extensively trained , and er , have the willingness to take on what are difficult and challenging youngsters and er , who are placed with them . |
13 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
14 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
15 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
16 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
17 | Most times the squadron took off and returned safely , and gradually the life at Bourn changed . |
18 | In the case of Russia , revisionist research has underlined the manner in which the specific nature of the tsarist regime conditioned the decision to take on the Central Powers . |
19 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
20 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
21 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
22 | But to have the decision taken out of her hands like that was irritating and downright unfair . |
23 | Bath 's No.8 is the favourite to take over from the British Lion after Leicester confirmed yesterday that Richards would miss the rest of the season . |
24 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
25 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
26 | The installation of a Lasercomp in 1979 enabled the Division to take on the filmsetting work of the Computer Assisted Typesetting unit as well as expand the range of their own setting . |
27 | When the female has laid , the male takes over . |
28 | Once egg laying is complete , the female retires to a safe distance and the male takes up a guard position under the nest . |
29 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
30 | They have removed the right of women to have child-care costs taken into account when claiming income support , and they have prevented those women from having the freedom to take up part-time work to improve their incomes . |