Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to take [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 2 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 3 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 4 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 5 | Adjustable compensating magnets are fitted and these are used to take out the effect of deviation when the compass is checked ( " swung " ) . |
| 6 | People like you are needed to take up the challenge . |
| 7 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 8 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 9 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 10 | As with all computer technology the price of the necessary hardware and software has been falling dramatically and more and more manufacturers are starting to take seriously the idea of producing pen based computers for the mass market . |
| 11 | With contracting , hospital doctors will be the agents of the provider , not the purchasing authority , and again can not be expected to take on the gatekeeper role . |
| 12 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 13 | A window and a section of wall had to be removed to take out the body and twenty men were needed to lower the coffin into his grave in St. Martin 's Churchyard , where his tombstone states ‘ in personal greatness [ he ] had no competitor ’ . |
| 14 | This was to be jointly owned by twelve area distribution companies , which were to be created to take on the distribution role of the existing twelve area boards . |
| 15 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 16 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 17 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 18 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 19 | This question echoes the old debates over the so-called ‘ managerial revolution ’ ( Burnham , Berle and Means ) where salaried personnel were seen to take over the running of firms . |
| 20 | He had a brother , Richard , who was later to play an important part in the family 's advancement in Rome , being destined to take over the running of the Conti estates in the Romagna . |
| 21 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 22 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 23 | ‘ Conservation is being asked to take on the burden of social policies for rural Britain . ’ |
| 24 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 25 | These days women were allowed to take up the running , but she had n't and now it was too late . |
| 26 | No one can ever know the fatality rate , the numbers of young inexperienced birds who are tempted to take on the flight across the North Sea , but who never make it . |
| 27 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 28 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 29 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 30 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |