Example sentences of "[be] to take [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 2 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 3 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 4 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 5 | One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons : |
| 6 | Matthew Gloag & Son is to take on the marketing and sales of Bunnahabhain 12-Year-Old Islay Malt Scotch Whisky . |
| 7 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 8 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 9 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 10 | The squadron 's Andover planes will go to East Midlands airport where a private firm is to take over the squadron 's duty checking the accuracy of radar and landing systems on all military aircraft . |
| 11 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 12 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 13 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |
| 14 | Nixon 's strategy , in other words , was to take over the bureaucracy while , at the same time , he would take on the congress . |
| 15 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 16 | You see , under the old law when a married man without a family his brother was to take on the widow and raise up a family in the name and in the memory of his brother . |
| 17 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 18 | For an annual sum of £100 he was to take on the care , culture and management of the Garden for a term of seven years from Michaelmas , to keep in repair the stove , greenhouse and other buildings and utensils contained in them , to make a catalogue of the plants and , an additional commercial perquisite , to be allowed to sell surplus fruit and plants for his own benefit . |
| 19 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 20 | One of the biggest was to take on the identity of a businessman and travel behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 21 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 22 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |