Example sentences of "[be] to take the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 2 | A simple example in the case of the university student population would be to take the faculties of the university ( let us say there are then , just for example ) and take a sample of two of them . |
| 3 | But flying accidents were to take the lives of young airmen beyond that date . |
| 4 | The aim of this investigation is to take the story of the development of German Geography onwards from the point at which Hartshorne finished , essentially with the methodological work of A Hettner ( 1859-1941 ) . |
| 5 | The first is to show the Angels that flake is food and the other is to take the place of dither fish . |
| 6 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 7 | Firstly they need to decide what the video is to be about , who is to take the roles of sound recordist , camera , interviewee , etc. , and how they are going to tackle their project . |
| 8 | A different response to the issues of " relevance " , and perhaps the more common one within higher education from the 1960s , was to take the degree of " adequacy " of literary awareness to be the measure of the individual student 's " intelligence " or " maturity " . |
| 9 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 10 | The camps are historic , as much a part of history as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili who was to take the name of Stalin . |
| 11 | He said the alternative view was to take the standpoint of a fully-developed person looking back to some point marking the moment of creation . |
| 12 | Garvey was to take the part of Balaam , and Lucie his donkey . |
| 13 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of July 19 , about US$1,200 million of the total was to take the form of grants , with the remainder composed of loans at concessional or close-to-market rates of interest . |
| 14 | The " United Front from Below " was to be based primarily on " the immediate demands of the workers " and was to take the form of joint agitation at local level , rather than of organizational unity on a national scale . |
| 15 | Henry of Almain was to take the profits of the forests and castle for himself , subject only to the duty of maintaining the castle . |
| 16 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 17 | Now the duties I had to do there was to take the place of what the Provost of the town did before you see . |
| 18 | For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present . |