Example sentences of "[noun pl] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am sure they would see that queues of slow moving traffic soon build up and drivers take to the town to get through . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Still today virtually all insects at some stage of their lives take to the air . |
| 10 | The young urban loyalists took to the streets : |
| 11 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 12 | In Arab East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied territories , Palestinians took to the streets in celebration . |
| 13 | Armed civilians , Islamic militiamen and pro-Khomeini troops took to the streets to take control of other military installations . |
| 14 | In addition he is appealing for tin openers , aspirins and vegetable seeds to take to the stricken country . |
| 15 | A ‘ FLYING squad ’ of experts takes to the road this month and early May to help East Anglian farmers tackle probably their most important office job for years . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , the noise bellowing around Ibrox when the teams took to the pitch was an octave or two higher than normal . |
| 17 | So this is what he set out to do and , in 1986 , the Halifax Mystery Plays took to the road . |
| 18 | Proposals include both teams taking to the field together before kick-off and permitting three substitutes instead of the current two , with the third being a ‘ recognised goalkeeper ’ , as in the Premier League . |
| 19 | Stirred up by this incident , nationalists took to the streets in several parts of Yerevan , setting up road blocks . |
| 20 | It also commanded the route the crusaders took to the East . |
| 21 | Publicly there were muzzy plans for when the city populations took to the skies en masse . |
| 22 | But at home Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , the parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , made it clear that the power struggle was far from over , and outside the parliament , thousands of protesters took to the streets both for and against the president . |
| 23 | When the rioters took to the streets , when the fires in Bristol lit the night sky , when Attwood 's meeting at Birmingham resolved to pay no taxes , when , in short , revolution threatened , it was not because the Whig Government wanted reform as proposed in their Bill . |
| 24 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 25 | More recently , junior hospital doctors took to the streets over their appallingly long hours , up to ninety in a single week . |
| 26 | Youths took to the streets in protest . |
| 27 | As news of the shooting spread through the city , bands of Hispanic youths took to the streets in the early evening . |
| 28 | On May 6 thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Lomé calling for the resignation of President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who , they claimed , were " accomplices " in the attack . |
| 29 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 30 | She saw his sister and nephew next morning as she was loading her car with her carvings to take to the hospital . |