Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JAMES FULLER has been appointed to take over from John Hammond as general manager , JS restaurants , with full profit responsibility for the JS coffee shop business . |
| 2 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 3 | Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists , there is still an acute shortage . |
| 4 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 5 | I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task . |
| 6 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 7 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 8 | Ever since Dad 's death , she 'd been reading letters from her mother singing Romano 's praises , and detailing the dangerous sports she 'd been encouraged to take up by the wretched man … |
| 9 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 10 | That would be an essential prerequisite for any United Nations force being asked to take over a policing operation . |
| 11 | It was reported on Dec. 30 that Carlos Vera had been appointed to take over Zambrano 's portfolio . |
| 12 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 13 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 14 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 15 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 16 | Debbie Raymond , who was one of Britain 's richest women , had been groomed to take over her father 's £80ma-year business . |
| 17 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 18 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 19 | Apart from , as CAJEC chairman said , ‘ clearing up any misunderstanding that this enquiry procedure is just restricted to audits — it applies to all assignments ’ , other significant changes include requiring firms to provide minimum accounting information to a successor even where fees remain outstanding and stronger procedures to be followed by firms to inform the existing adviser that they have been invited to take on additional work . |
| 20 | HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done . |
| 21 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 22 | But others have been forced to take on heavy debts to fight off hostile bids . |
| 23 | I have been allowed to take off my shirt and am working in just shorts and plimsolls . |
| 24 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 25 | But this good housekeeping has been swept aside by the latest wave of IRA terrorism aimed at commercial targets on the mainland , one of the repercussions of which has been that , from 1 January this year , landlords and/or tenants have been required to take out a separate insurance policy to cover their buildings against terrorist damage . |
| 26 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |