Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the ties seem to need taking out . |
| 2 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 3 | I am pleased that the parents of pupils at those schools have voted to take up this option for their schools . |
| 4 | He is aiming at 100 stores , has added extra warehousing space and has even ( briefly ) considered expanding into eastern Europe , an idea he has since gone cool on : ‘ I was interested in Prague , but the Germans seem to have taken over . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There were four major air disasters last year , all four planes involved having taken off from airports which were regarded as having maximum security . |
| 6 | My feelings seem to have taken over . |
| 7 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 8 | Then the brass plaques tend to get taken off and happens where a stone remains . |
| 9 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 10 | As more and more material was uncovered , the interest of students of both Old and New Testaments had extended to take in increasingly large tracts of the surrounding fields , and to seek to locate the biblical material in that broader setting . |
| 11 | In the following chapters in this book there are many illustrations of how adult educators have attempted to take up this challenge working with women , peace groups , the unemployed , ecology groups , trade unions , cooperatives , people in the Third World . |
| 12 | But since the so-called Society of Young Publishers has failed to take up my challenge to revive the panto , we 'll have to think of some other way to cheer ourselves up . |
| 13 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 14 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 15 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
| 16 | And with the cold-eyed realism that not a lot has been achieved by feminism , many younger women have sought to take on men on their own ground , accepting extant values and the handicaps of modern commerce and industry . |