Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament approved special measures allowing the military to take over rail links to get supplies through to Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia . |
| 2 | The Soviet parliament approved special measures allowing the military to take over the railways to get supplies through , but the army held off , apparently reluctant to trigger fresh protests . |
| 3 | At the Goldstone I bet he 'll go past three or four players , and then lose the ball taking on a fifth instead of putting our strikers in . |
| 4 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 5 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 6 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 7 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 8 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 9 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 10 | ‘ Freedom of establishment shall include the right to take up and pursue activities as self-employed persons and to set up and manage undertakings , in particular companies or firms within the meaning of the second paragraph of article 58 , under the conditions laid down for its own nationals by the law of the country where such establishment is effected , subject to the provisions of the chapter relating to capital . ’ |
| 11 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 12 | The creation of the enterprise culture in deprived areas of the North and the ‘ inner cities ’ is fundamentally about the creation of jobs at lower wages than were previously viewed as acceptable and reducing entitlement to benefit and levels of benefit in order to increase the incentive to take on these jobs . |
| 13 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 14 | In either type of case the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to take over the proceedings at any stage , either by conducting them himself or discontinuing them . |
| 15 | In the case of some functions Whitehall has the power to take over the duties of a local authority if it fails to carry out its statutory obligations . |
| 16 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
| 17 | Strolling quietly together down the gravel paths of the old-fashioned Elizabethan knot garden , which was her mother 's pride and joy , Laura found the evening taking on a completely different complexion . |
| 18 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 19 | appointment he erm he let , he let the client take over the the call because he was n't erm prepared enough when he were n't there . |
| 20 | ‘ I want the emotion taken out of this debate . |
| 21 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 22 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 23 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 24 | The decree allows the government to take over public utilities and businesses . |
| 25 | The decree allows the government to take over public utilities and businesses . |
| 26 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 27 | I told the co-pilot to take over and I went back to the radio room and saw Charlie with blood all over his head and the front of his flight suit ’ . |
| 28 | In my love-making I simply held him close and let the rest take over , rounded off with a simple kiss . |
| 29 | But tonight Adamski either let the technology take over , or , as I suspect , simply does not have the material ( yet ) to sustain an evening 's entertainment . |
| 30 | But tonight Adamski either let the technology take over , or , as I suspect , simply does not have the material ( yet ) to sustain an evening 's entertainment . |