Example sentences of "[noun] to take [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 6 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |
| 7 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 8 | Association chairman , Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate that Orient were prepared to allow a man of Frank 's talent to take on the job . ’ |
| 9 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 10 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 11 | Commentators have seen this as an acknowledgement of the slowness of the French-speaking nations to take up the challenge of an international role . |
| 12 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 13 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 14 | Mullins , who moved to the North-East to take over the kennels of the late Tom Whitfield in November after working as head lad for his mother , Linda Mullins , in Essex , gets the award after providing 15 winners from 61 runners , an average of 26.6pc . |
| 15 | He pointed to a couple of other technical inferiorities , and went on to note that DEC still has n't managed to convince any of the semiconductor manufacturers to take on the production of Alpha — it looks as though DEC will have to make it itself . |
| 16 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 17 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 18 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 19 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 21 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |
| 22 | President Reagan and his advisers want to loosen the government 's hold on satellites ; hence the instructions to McElroy to solicit tenders from companies to take over the craft that his organisation now operates . |
| 23 | New rules to allow private companies to take over the running of key public sector construction projects such as the the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link , London rail links and major bridge and road projects . |
| 24 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 25 | President Kravchuk said he would resist any attempts by Russia to take over the Black Sea fleet or to change the status of Crimea . |
| 26 | In nineteen seventy Richard Branson was making waves as a young businessman , even then he had aspirations to take on the giants . |
| 27 | PARENTS at a small church primary in Dunblane yesterday voted to become the first in Scotland to take over the running of their school . |
| 28 | IT would be reasonable to suppose that dreams of following Daley Thompson have inspired Anthony Brannen to take up the world record holder 's former mantle as Britain 's leading decathlete . |
| 29 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 30 | Cato 's obdurate hostility and determination to take over the Auvergnat diocese , however , led to a hardening of lines , and Cautinus began to persecute Cato and his followers . |