Example sentences of "[adj] take to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If tens of thousands of people are prepared to take to the streets and to camp outside obscure air-force bases for months on end , what will they do when cruise becomes a reality ? |
| 2 | AMERICA 'S FIRST five-jet aerobatic team look set to take to the skies in time for the 1993 airshow season , reports Bill Jesse . |
| 3 | Indeed , they demonstrate little interest in or carry any vim into their academic work ; certainly nothing to compare with the avid desire for technique and expertise many take to the sports field . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , most payers are too responsible to take to the streets . |
| 5 | The end of the year saw thousands take to the streets in order to demonstrate their anger and resentment , ostensibly with the African students in China but more indirectly with the party 's failure to tackle the problems of reform . |
| 6 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 7 | The students of el Azhar , the great Moslem university of Cairo , were only too ready to take to the streets in defence of religion or , indeed , anything at all , and once they were participating it would be very difficult to keep the matter localized . |