Example sentences of "[noun] was take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 2 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 3 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
| 4 | So no action was taken on the ideas of the Layfield Committee . |
| 5 | Action was taken on the poll tax . |
| 6 | No legal action was taken so the locals were left to seethe with no redress . |
| 7 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 8 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 9 | All we was doing was taking away the ceremonies natural to our worship . |
| 10 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |
| 11 | Thus evidence was taken on the need for the bill and why it was proposed to deal with problems in a particular way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a result , Frank Bates was taken on the strength . |
| 15 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
| 16 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 17 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
| 18 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 19 | In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient . |
| 20 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 21 | An urgent decision was taken on the surface that the men would have to be brought out in groups of three . |
| 22 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 23 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 24 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |