Example sentences of "[noun sg] take [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 The Majlis on Oct. 31 approved a draft bill authorizing the Iranian President to take measures for the arrest and punishment anywhere in the world of US citizens found guilty by the Iranian judiciary of anti-Iran terrorist activity .
2 iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace .
3 The work of the mobile teams is purely facilitation and although local health workers are kept informed of the team 's work , the village takes responsibility for the next step .
4 In the third case , one teacher took responsibility for the majority , while the other looked after a small group , or even an individual .
5 Each member state has designated a particular body to take responsibility for the comparability work .
6 Education Secretary John Patten has appointed a new governing body to take responsibility for the college .
7 Untanned skin takes time for the natural melanin pigment to be triggered off by sunrays and to rise to the surface to make you look brown .
8 The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 .
9 It is essential , however , that the student takes responsibility for the final decisions on the selection of strategies and means of implementation .
10 In another , a regional co-ordinator was in post , while a district mental health manager took responsibility for the training required .
11 support a continued moratorium on hunting the great whales , and push for a similar body to the International Whaling Commission to take responsibility for the 66 small cetaceans currently unprotected
12 Subsequently , the government responded to public pressure and provided for an elected single-purpose authority to take responsibility for the ILEA ( see below ) .
13 And finally — I took it as a compliment when the local Councillor took credit for the upgrading , prior to the local elections !
14 Now the Department of Energy is in the ludicrous position of trying to persuade the SSEB to accept responsibility for the Scottish plutonium , currently unseparated from the rest of the spent fuel , while the CEGB is under pressure to take responsibility for the Kent plutonium .
15 Within the committee , each member took responsibility for the committee 's work in certain Major Project schools , and thus provided a link between the committee and those who were implementing the project on the ground .
16 By 1924 the party was recognisably the party of today ( McKibbin 1974 p 236 ) , and in a position to take power for the first time .
17 Mr. Kinnock has challenged the Prime Minister to take responsibility for the recession .
18 After leaving Kidderminster the train ran to Bewdley where a reversal took place for the train to run onto part of the spur of the former Stourport line .
19 A sufficient convergence of interest took place for the so-called Pentagon talks to be held in the last quarter of 1947 .
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