Example sentences of "[vb pp] to take [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 KPMG , for example , being an authorised person , would not be permitted to take advantage of the exemption so as to avoid the need to approve an advertisement ( or Information memorandum ) issued in its own name .
2 A saving throw of 6 is permitted to take account of the Squig .
3 I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound .
4 The new party aimed to present a viable alternative to the existing groupings but was widely expected to take part with the BNP in forming an anti-Awami League alliance .
5 Around 40 members of the congregation are expected to take part in the trip on May 29 .
6 A 20-strong group is expected to take part in the event at Tunstall Court on June 26 .
7 Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged .
8 More than 17,000 troops from France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , the UK and the USA were expected to take part in the operation .
9 The four are still expected to take part in the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championship .
10 This requires action taken by a trade union to be supported by a majority in a secret ballot of all those reasonably expected to take part in the action , and in view of the practicalities of organising a ballot and the fact that advance approval of action is valid for only four weeks puts a serious constraint upon the taking of effective action even where that has overwhelming support .
11 Local authorities are expected to take account of the child 's views when offering such provision and , where possible , to arrange for a child to go to the club or scheme of his choice ( Guidance , vol 2 , para 3.11 ) .
12 The agreement , yet to be ratified by the US Congress , was expected to take effect by the end of September .
13 Her acceptance as a full member nation is expected to take place at the ITF 's Annual General Meeting , which takes place in the Dominican Republic in September .
14 As a result legislative elections were expected to take place before the end of January 1993 and presidential elections before mid-February .
15 With the Constitution approved , presidential elections were expected to take place by the end of October and legislative elections were scheduled for the end of December .
16 In three cases of clear-cut discrepancy between the social class classification arrived at in this way and the wife 's previous occupation , education or general life-style , social class was upgraded or downgraded to take account of the contradiction .
17 To do this , two police force areas with differing practices have been approached to take part in the research and the impact of the introduction of the Crown Prosecutor recorded .
18 ‘ Satellites can be programmed to take pictures at the customer 's request , ’ Dr Baker explained .
19 These safeguards are framed in an adjudicative fashion , albeit one which is significantly modified to take account of the circumstances .
20 The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention .
21 It is not just the operation of systems of transport which is a source of endangerment : the actions of individuals may be designed to take advantage of the possibility of causing several deaths at once .
22 The offline system has also been designed to take account of the situation in which units such as magnetic disk drives may not always be available during a particular offline run .
23 Keiki was an able individual , an astute politician prepared to take heed of the views of both advisers and enemies .
24 The net effect on trade has been coloured by the recession though some businesses have moved to take account of the change in access .
25 They have applied to take part in the race several times in previous years but without success .
26 Mr Evans said that the redundancies were regretted but believed that the measures taken would ensure a leaner , fitter company better positioned to take advantage of the recovery when it came .
27 This only occurs when programs are written to take advantage of the co-processor .
28 The school was one of those selected to take part in the county 's TVEI pilot scheme , but neither the art nor music department were involved in work on this project at the time of the research .
29 In general , these initiatives seem to have shifted jobs around rather than created new ones , as some firms have relocated to take advantage of the subsidies ( see Roger Tym and Partners , 1981 , 1982 ; Shutt , 1984 ; Erikson and Syms , 1986 ) .
30 In each case rebleeding was seen to take place below the staple line , suggesting perhaps that while the oesophageal transection was satisfactory better results could conceivably be obtained with a more radical gastric devascularisation .
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