Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa . |
| 2 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 3 | Apart from marches , CND fuelled their anti-cruise campaigns with demonstrations around the bases that were scheduled to take the new missiles . |
| 4 | The girls were required to take the Official Secrets oath . |
| 5 | The results confirmed his diagnosis and after he had written a report for Jack 's own GP transport was arranged to take the patient home to rest . |
| 6 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 7 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |