Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to take [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 2 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 3 | For example — Panorama on Robert Maxwell was the only piece of journalism to take on the subject — and at considerable risk . |
| 4 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 5 | This is both in respect of the run up to the seventy fifth birthday and also with the increase in responsibility to take on the remit for the development of our work in relation to the European Community , central and Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | President Reagan and his advisers want to loosen the government 's hold on satellites ; hence the instructions to McElroy to solicit tenders from companies to take over the craft that his organisation now operates . |
| 7 | PARENTS at a small church primary in Dunblane yesterday voted to become the first in Scotland to take over the running of their school . |
| 8 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 9 | Instead they managed both by using the County Homesearch Company based in Truro to take over the housing negotiations , reports of which chased them round Australia on fax . |
| 10 | In addition Housing Action Trusts were proposed in order to take over the operation of specific run-down council estates , with the intention of changing their tenure to the private sector or housing associations . |
| 11 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 12 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 13 | Later in the week a répétiteur would come down from Vienna to take over the piano and help with individual coaching . |
| 14 | ( He turns upstage in time to take over the conversation with CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE and ROS head downstage . ) |
| 15 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 17 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 18 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 19 | But if the U's beat Cardiff City on Friday , March 12 — their next league game — then there is a possibility that another new senior face will be arriving on loan to take up the goalkeeping duties . |
| 20 | At his father 's death , Webb moved to Kingswood to take over the business , married Alice Trobridge , and had many daughters , and one son , Benedict . |
| 21 | A carriage driver and his horses are on their way to America to take on the World 's best in the sport . |
| 22 | So tell me , or I will arrange for others to take over the questioning . ’ |
| 23 | The plan is for Solvay to take over the hydrogen peroxide and persalt business , with turnover of £340m pa , while Laporte takes the organic peroxides and persulphates , worth about £65m pa . |
| 24 | President Kravchuk said he would resist any attempts by Russia to take over the Black Sea fleet or to change the status of Crimea . |