Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to take [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Maturities are designed to take out anticipated shortages at a later date and therefore maturities differ from the standard 91 days .
2 But none of the employees are expected to take on extra duties after a hard day in the shop .
3 All six degrees of freedom are seen to take on some zone of possible position or angle .
4 Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business .
5 Dentists are refusing to take on new Health Service Patients .
6 Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible .
7 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 .
8 Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists , there is still an acute shortage .
9 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 .
10 Japan , especially , is likely to be pressured to take on more of the burden sharing .
11 And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors .
12 Its proportions can be varied to take on new shapes .
13 Therefore the rotor can be made to take up any intermediate position between the full-step positions if the windings are excited by currents in the correct proportion .
14 In addition , contributions can be made to take up any unused part of the total earnings of the past six years .
15 Charge cards companies will not be looking to take on those customers with lower incomes who do not want to pay , or find it difficulty in paying , high credit-card interest rates .
16 The process by which two clubs would be invited to take up full membership of the Scottish League would be decided after the EGM .
17 If auditors are to be asked to take on greater responsibilities , there has to be a quid pro quo .
18 Users will not be forced to take up object-oriented features if they do n't want to , but they will be able to can add bits of object-oriented programming as they wish , and insulate existing Cobol programs by making an object out of an existing data structure .
19 However , both must be allowed to take on negative values , so that we can represent negative numbers and normalized numbers with absolute value less than 1 /b .
20 I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task .
21 But others have been forced to take on heavy debts to fight off hostile bids .
22 The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for .
23 Even before university he was being schooled to take over one day .
24 Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics .
25 Jewellery replied quickly and Amison and Plant were forced to take on extra defensive duties while at the other end , captain Tony Elkin , brother Kevin and Paul Moran were well in control for Barlaston .
26 Youngsters in the city are now being encouraged to take up more sports like short tennis to keep them interested .
27 It was because of this denial of the importance of lesbians and lesbian strength within the organization ( by lesbians as much as heterosexual women ) that heterosexual women were encouraged to take over key positions .
28 He said it was time crack SAS troops were deployed to take out leading members of the IRA .
29 HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done .
30 Furthermore , peripherals used by each are likely to be drawn together into a single , compatible product line and Fujitsu is expected to take over more responsibility for the development of ICL and Amdahl 's mainframe CPU architectures .
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