Example sentences of "be [adv] take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 2 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 3 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
| 4 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 5 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 6 | The Japanese are now taking over the manufacture of the machines as you can imagine , and so that 's the end of it for the , the |
| 7 | passengers are now taken on a picturesque two and a half mile long trip to Holywell Halt and beyond . |
| 8 | Oh right erm to be honest I do n't , the guy who set all that up has moved company , I 'm just taking over the , the care of them really , unless erm Mr said anything , erm erm , yes if you would , er just hang on a minute , erm he 's got someone in |
| 9 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 10 | We are then taken on a tour of the factory while waiting for lunch . |
| 11 | Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’ |
| 12 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 13 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 14 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 15 | The initial reaction has been that if the Chancellor is only taking out a token sum in higher tax , then the scope for further cuts in interest rates has been severely diminished , and fixed-rate gilt-edged stocks were marked sharply lower . |
| 16 | The UK , which already allows freedom to provide services into its territory , is not taking up the option to require authorisation . |
| 17 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 18 | Well the other thing that 's in the back of my mind is I happen to know that Cath is just taking on a new worker |
| 19 | Belgian-born Dr Michel Pacque , who first carried out tests of ivermectin with workers in a rubber plantation in Liberia over several years , is now taking up an appointment as consultant for Sight Savers ( Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind ) in West Africa with the task of organizing regular supplies . |
| 20 | If all the amendments are lost , one by one , a vote is then taken on the original motion just as if there had been no amendments moved at all . |
| 21 | AN APPLE for the teacher is about to take on a new meaning in California . |
| 22 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 23 | The Cabriolet was already taking on an adaptable demeanour , but when I hit the distortion channel things became serious ; these humbuckers are capable of some pretty heavy stuff . |
| 24 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
| 25 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
| 26 | Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident . |
| 27 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 28 | A vote was then taken on the resolution with 's addition and as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 29 ; against 50 . |
| 29 | Another vote was then taken on the resolution , with 's addition , but otherwise retaining the original wording ie. not as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 65 ; against 17 . |
| 30 | As they glided around in a wide circle towards the Wyrmberg it was definitely taking on a more solid form , as if the creature 's body was filling with a gold mist . |