Example sentences of "[noun] [be] to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 3 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 4 | Sealink Stena is to take over the Newhaven — Dieppe service and P & 0 hopes to introduce sailings from Portsmouth to Bilbao in 1993 . |
| 5 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 6 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
| 7 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 8 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 9 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 10 | The squadron 's Andover planes will go to East Midlands airport where a private firm is to take over the squadron 's duty checking the accuracy of radar and landing systems on all military aircraft . |
| 11 | Corporate development officer Katharine Hardy will be encouraging companies to show their green credentials by joining the Trust , while Phil Sedwill is to take over the ‘ Greening The Tees Corridor ’ scheme as habitat creation project officer . |
| 12 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 13 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 14 | For if the princes were to take seriously the one task the church now allowed them , they could not achieve it without also enlarging their criminal jurisdiction . |
| 15 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |
| 16 | Matthew Gloag & Son is to take on the marketing and sales of Bunnahabhain 12-Year-Old Islay Malt Scotch Whisky . |
| 17 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 18 | You see , under the old law when a married man without a family his brother was to take on the widow and raise up a family in the name and in the memory of his brother . |