Example sentences of "[conj] to take [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can not forbid the Common Law Courts to try an action ; but he can forbid a man to bring it , or to go on with it , or to take advantage of the judgement which he has got , and can put him in prison if he does not obey . |
| 2 | At the moment it is theoretically possible for a qualified nurse with 20 years ' break in service to be put in charge of an acute ward , and to take responsibility for the management and allocation of staff , even though she may not have any recent or relevant experience . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ The play scheme needs helpers to plan the summer holiday event and to take part during the four weeks . |
| 4 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 5 | Name required a partner with financial and technical resources to enable expansion and to take advantage of the huge developing market in its business sector ; |
| 6 | A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues . |
| 7 | Non-stop mix-transfers are a three-handed job , and you will need the help of an assistant to cue-in the music material and to take care of the changing of source-discs and or cassettes on the replay machine if required . |
| 8 | Whether we know him or not whether we 've never had any dealings with him in the past or not , he is able to bring peace once we allow him to come in and to take control of the situation . |
| 9 | In addition to this is the need to start expanding the mental horizons and to take interest in the endless intellectual sphere . |
| 10 | Committees can become as tyrannical and authoritarian as individuals , and therefore the members of a worship committee need to take particular care to listen to comments or complaints from the congregation , and to take note of the varying temperaments and requirements of worshippers . |
| 11 | avoid the practice of giving gifts or commercial incentives to prospective pupils or their parents with the intention of inducing them to enrol and to take account of the possible damage to pupils in other educational establishments as a result of marketing activities . |
| 12 | Their job , according to official sources of advice , is to present and to take account of the wider national purposes for which the parks have been designated . |
| 13 | In typical elitist manner Schumpeter describes these notions as both unrealistic and dangerous ; but a major difference from classical elite theorists is that Schumpeter wants to redefine democracy so as to preserve some recognition of the fact of popular participation and to take account of the inevitably limited nature of this participation . |
| 14 | Why has the Secretary of State failed effectively to tackle those problems and to take action against the excessive profits and unacceptable boardroom pay rises and perks ? |
| 15 | Many golfers therefore opt to take short trips abroad to Spain and Portugal , in order not only to play but to take advantage of the warm climate . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been left with no alternative but to take action through the courts to defend the Legal Aid Scheme . |
| 17 | The Football Association will wait until they receive the report of match referee Joe Worrall before deciding whether to take action over the mass confrontation which took place after Pointon 's tackle . |
| 18 | That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside . |
| 19 | In practice selectors will use both databases and select bibliographies ( assuming the latter are available ) so as to take advantage of the best features of both . |
| 20 | The author 's preface refers to ‘ the gentleman , who was so kind as to take care of the Publication of it , only to excuse me from appearing ’ . |
| 21 | The Bank of England acted to keep the cost of overnight money low so as to take pressure off the longer dates , but analysts warned that the authorities would find it difficult to keep this tactic going . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |