Example sentences of "[adv] to take the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 2 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 3 | Also there were doubts as to whether the panelling in the proposed new location was strong enough to take the weight of the new clock and its ‘ sculptured ’ bracket . |
| 4 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 5 | A small one allows air in to take the place of the liquid and also supplies the jet of water for rinsing the inside of the spray containers . |
| 6 | The kapu system of priestly prohibitions and sanctions had finally disintegrated in 1819 , but new taboos rushed in to take the place of the old . |
| 7 | Stuart Wilson , previously honorary secretary was voted in to take the office of captain and Gordon Keith , previously treasurer , was voted in as honorary secretary . |
| 8 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 9 | He is sent by the Father to glorify Jesus , to show Jesus ' attractiveness , and not to take the centre of the stage . |
| 10 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 11 | Lowe was strenuously advised not to take the risk of doing ‘ Wayne 's World ’ . |
| 12 | I 've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead , and fowls and beasts to get them started again . |
| 13 | And would anyone who 's got a paper already , like to take the part of Zoe ? |
| 14 | We have still to take the matter of editions a little further . |
| 15 | It was this temporal hiatus , as much as anything , which allowed the Vietminh to assume power , particularly in the north , but when the Kuomintang Chinese armies of occupation moved in , nominally to take the surrender of Japanese troops but in fact to remove almost everything of value that was portable , they existed side by side in fruitful collaboration . |
| 16 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 17 | She might not like the situation , but she was n't about to take the line of least resistance . |
| 18 | Abkhazian troops went on to take the villages of Gantiadi and Leselidze on Oct. 6 , thus establishing control over the whole of northern Abkhazia , from the capital Sukhumi to the border with Russia . |
| 19 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |