Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was financed by Lloyd George , without reference to Asquith , and argued that the state should gradually take over the land through committees whose purpose was to ensure that reforms were made to revive the economy of the countryside . |
| 2 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 3 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 4 | It might also take on the role of initiator of research and the evaluation of material . |
| 5 | Our unequal arms might well take up the difference in line lengths when flying one way ; but the perverse nature of our natural reactions does n't allow the same correction when flying the other way . |
| 6 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 7 | Since it was the only nationwide law enforcement agency when McKinley got killed in 1901- making three presidential assassinations in forty years — it was the only group that could easily take on the job of bodyguarding future presidents . |
| 8 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |
| 9 | The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises . |
| 10 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 11 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 12 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 13 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |
| 14 | The Chief Detective Inspector who would later take on the investigation looked in , and exchanged a few words with the Detective-Sergeant . |
| 15 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 16 | He would then take over the European Components ' planning activity when everything was centralised in Detroit . |
| 17 | IBM UK Ltd is likely to underwrite the construction by Mimtec Ltd , an electronics manufacturer owned by Murray International Holdings Plc of a new plant in Gourock , a few miles from IBM 's Greenock personal computer factory : the plant would employ about 400 people assembling personal computers under contract to IBM ; according to the Financial Times , some £9m of the cost of the plant would be met by an enterprise trust , with the rest from grants ; IBM would ultimately take over the plant when the trust was paid off . |
| 18 | The debt charges on the recreation facilities , for example , would remain , whoever was running them and there is absolutely no possibility that private contractors would actually take over the debt charges . |
| 19 | I shall certainly take up the point that the hon. Gentleman has raised about London docklands . |
| 20 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |
| 21 | John Hartley will shortly take up the position of Deputy Secretary General following a restructuring of responsibilities within CHQ . |
| 22 | I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons . |
| 23 | When the civilian contract is in operation from July 1993 , Topcliffe will also take over the function of the RAF 's Chipmunk-equipped Elementary Flying Training School , currently based at RAF Swinderby in Lincolnshire . |
| 24 | Alsys will also take over the Ada/SoftBench offering along with a suite of Ada bindings to HP-UX , X Library , X Toolkit and Motif . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough 's Reserve League side will also take on the Glasgow juniors over six heats in the second half of tonight 's programme . |
| 26 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 27 | The Government will now take over the Student Loans Company , the Glasgow-based firm set up to lend and collect repayments on the Treasury-financed loans . |
| 28 | There is an understanding that BBDO will fully take over the agency some time after 1993 , which threatens a loss of sovereignty . |
| 29 | They may therefore take up the offer more speedily than they otherwise would , or be more reluctant to leave their existing job to search for another job . |
| 30 | Johnnie is unable to escape the paralyzing atmosphere of the family home and in the end can only take on the identity of his dead father . |