Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 2 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 3 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 4 | As with all computer technology the price of the necessary hardware and software has been falling dramatically and more and more manufacturers are starting to take seriously the idea of producing pen based computers for the mass market . |
| 5 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 6 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 7 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 8 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 9 | clarification that that 's the er just the amendment relating to where you were trying to take away the rights of ward members to attend ? as you have taken away the rights of members on questions , comments er and other things |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 12 | He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours . |
| 13 | But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf . |
| 14 | In contrast , former City favourite Francis Lee , who is trying to take over the club , was cheered before the match , at half-time , and when he left the ground 13 minutes before the end . |
| 15 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 16 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 17 | She was going to take back the night . |
| 18 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 19 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 20 | The Cheltenham MP was trying to take up the cudgels on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council , who face being charge capped for wanting to spend ten million pounds above the Government 's limit . |