Example sentences of "to take by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the return journey to canton Bern some people may , for variety , choose to take by road or rail the faster route from Luzern to Bern ( or Thun ) by way of the Emmental . |
| 2 | There had also been talk of Wishart and Minton visiting America which , like Oscar Wilde , they hoped to take by storm . |
| 3 | A further strategic asset was the colossal citadel , the Akrokorinth , which is very hard to take by storm : its most famous capture , by Aratos of Sikyon in the third century , involved treachery . |
| 4 | Two is that there , in some sense , some perhaps rather extended and difficult sense , this totality of everything which we have to take by storm directly if any detail of the world is every to be understood , can be said to be mental . |
| 5 | There are some site precautions you have to take by law . |
| 6 | In Weber 's terms , office legitimizes power in the sense of the decisions affecting and determining the behaviour of others that one is entitled to take by virtue of occupying an official position with a designated jurisdiction . |