Example sentences of "[be] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second strong PR option would be to take the opposite line , to say how outrageous it is that there is all this terrible auditing going on , and to promise painful retribution for the wrongdoers . |
| 2 | One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote . |
| 3 | If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage . |
| 4 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 5 | The simplest way in which these changes may be projected through time is to take the total population at a given instant and to alter it year by year ( or by some other period of time ) according to a chosen assumption about future growth or decline . |
| 6 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 7 | Even though things can look bleak for the unemployed , Mr Scott 's advice is to take the long-term view — sooner or later an opportunity is bound to arise . |
| 8 | A good way of gauging whether the dogs are owner or dog-attached in a two-dog environment is to take the second dog for a quick walk , leaving the first at home ; when you return , the first dog will almost certainly greet you first . |
| 9 | The most straightforward approach is to take the narrow course of satisfying the client . |
| 10 | Many people say that the solution is to take the young person who has committed a crime out of their community and lock them away , that will achieve a solution . |
| 11 | Indeed , to combine a noun with a verb , he says , ‘ is to take the first step toward narrative ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) . |
| 12 | The first step is to take the oldest product and plot the estimated annual revenue from it over the planning period as shown for product A ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 13 | An alternative way of reaching Rutli from Treib is to take the funicular car ( a ride of 8 minutes ) to Seelisberg on its high terrace at 801m ( 2,627ft ) above sea level , and to walk through the straggling village past church and holiday hotels to the outlook point provided with benches where there is a panorama of the lake as well as a glimpse of Rutli far below . |
| 14 | So I suppose the only answer is to take the unusual step of inviting you back tomorrow , and I hope we can continue the conversation tomorrow . |
| 15 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 16 | Light Rapid Transit Project team member Mark Haslam explains : ‘ Our function is to take the corporate view — and present it to whoever is sponsoring individual light rail schemes . ’ |
| 17 | So what you 're doing is to take the focal point away from them and they 're having to look at you if you know what I mean . |
| 18 | At his subsequent trial , Charles Woolridge was to take the contradictory step of pleading not guilty , but the outcome was a foregone conclusion ; he was unanimously convicted . |
| 19 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 20 | When they 're not watching TV — 99 per cent admitted watching the box every night — over half those questioned said their only exercise was to take the occasional stroll . |
| 21 | They had two children , a girl of five and a boy of two , and one of my first jobs was to take the little girl to school . |
| 22 | as to who was to take the most credit . |