Example sentences of "[be] take [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Today we 're taking to the road with the stars .
2 ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican .
3 You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you .
4 They 're to take during the day .
5 And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight .
6 So I bought a tin , a five litre of white silk emulsion , brilliant white emulsion , erm a two litre drum , a thing of white spirit a pack of erm wool , steel wool , cos I 'm taking off the varnish off the doors , they 're coming up quite nicely !
7 THE COST ‘ We have an initiative which is still under wraps for the moment but which we will be taking during the election campaign , ’ he said .
8 Now this weekend , three firemen from Didcot will be taking to a bicycle to cycle the length of the Ridgeway .
9 ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets .
10 On Saturday , the environmental campaigners will be taking to the streets of Colchester to urge furniture buyers to boycott stores which stock products made of mahogany .
11 Eight hundred competitors will be taking to the water this weekend for the annual River Wye raft race .
12 Some of the world 's finest vintage aircraft will be taking to the skies at a display this weekend .
13 This weekend , top harmonica player Brendan Power and guitarist Frank Kilkelly will be taking to the stage , at around 8pm .
14 I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February .
15 People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words .
16 We hope to stage another competition next year , but this time the photos will have to be taken during the year to be eligible . ’
17 In turn , the gravels are themselves overlain by alluvial silty uniform sands around the junction with A8 and by lacustrine silty clay , peat and silt , associated with the former Gogar Loch , around the Gogar Burn and along South Gyle Broadway , and special measures had to be taken during the construction of embankments in these areas in order to avoid over-stressing the sub-strata and to accelerate the anticipated settlements .
18 Special care must always be taken during the climb away if single-strand wire is being used , because there is no sudden jerk or noise if a kink breaks early on the launch .
19 In warm weather , dehydration is a serious problem , and sufficient liquid must be taken during the flight even if this has its disadvantages afterwards !
20 — effects that depend on the arrival time of words can be modelled , allowing ’ snapshots ’ to be taken during the processing of a sentence that induces a ’ cognitive double-take ’ ;
21 Furthermore , central committee members from the Bosnia-Hercegovina LC staged a walkout in the course of the session after LCY presidium president Milan Pancevski ( Macedonia ) and acting presidium secretary Petar Skundric ( Serbia ) had tried to insist that a decision on resuming the congress be taken without a quorum .
22 This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on .
23 Any deviation from this in practice would be taken as a constraint , the analysis having revealed where such constraints are necessary so they can be taken into account when carrying out the audit .
24 The illustration should not be taken as a forecast , and the actual policy proceeds may be higher or lower than the amounts illustrated , depending on future investment conditions .
25 The illustration should not be taken as a forecast and the actual policy proceeds may be higher or lower than the amounts illustrated , depending on future investment conditions .
26 Many of the theories may be taken as a kind of realignment of astronomical perspectives ; a process of taxonomic refinement .
27 Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon .
28 Our table lists the factor that influences most choices — the price per gallon — but this should not be taken as a measure of value for money merely as an indicator of price .
29 Thus , in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew — a unique example of a play outside the play , not to be taken as a measure by which the rest of the play must be dismissed for lacking seriousness — the tinker Christopher Sly , brought back in a drunken stupor to the house of a mischievous lord , is deceived into thinking that he is really a gentleman .
30 The magnitude may be taken as a measure of the inflationary bias which is imparted to the system by non-competitive forces , the most obvious of these forces being the influence of trades unions in the wage bargaining process .
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