Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oracle Italy is being formed as joint venture with its distributor of ten years , Datamat ; Michael Rocher , managing director of Oracle France takes on responsibility for that unit too . |
| 2 | This thick tash must be accompanied by a large cigar and the refusal to go to any club that would have you as a member • Nabisco takes over disco as this year 's club theme . |
| 3 | A large company , for example , could take on responsibility for all three roles . |
| 4 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 5 | The true dragon , on the other hand , is a creature of such refinement of spirit that they can only take on form in this world if they are conceived by the most skilled imagination . |
| 6 | On appointment to office a new minister will take over responsibility for many departmental policies . |
| 7 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |
| 8 | This manoeuvre , followed by the resignations of the representatives of Vojvodina and Montenegro , and the dismissal of the Kosovo representative , appeared to be a ploy by which to force the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA , with its Serb-dominated officer corps ) to intervene and take over authority at federal level . |
| 9 | Council may take over running of historic sites |
| 10 | His replacement will probably not take up office until 1 September 193 . |
| 11 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 12 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
| 13 | Thomson underwent an MMC investigation when it took over Horizon in 1989 , but was cleared . |
| 14 | Toton took over responsibility for all Railfreight Coal traction used in the Midlands , North West , Yorkshire and North East districts , comprising some 250 locomotives of Classes 20 , 56 and 58 . |
| 15 | After the 1974 reorganisation , the new regional health authorities took over responsibility for all hospital and community health expenditure . |
| 16 | Shreeves was sacked and Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence took over responsibility for first-team affairs . |
| 17 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 18 | In the mid-1980s the French government did act to try to redress these trend , taking over responsibility for extra hospital services from the local departments . |
| 19 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 20 | He trained as an engraver but took up work with deaf people and became their missioner in Paisley , Scotland . |
| 21 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |
| 22 | Two hundred thousand American women took up golf in 1981 bringing the total of female golfers to 3.4 million in the United States . |
| 23 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
| 24 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 25 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 26 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 27 | I weighed 8st 7lbs ( 54kg ) , when this picture was taken on holiday in 1985 . |
| 28 | Information will be taken on income from all sources : from paid employment , investments , pensions and/or State benefits . |
| 29 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 30 | FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ ( below ) replaced FX740 , again retaining my father 's ‘ ? ’ symbol and was then taken on charge by 112 on June 3 , 1944 and then being flown by S/L Attearne DFC and Reg Wild eventually being replaced on June 22 , 1944 by the incoming Mustangs , re-equipping the Squadron , thus disproving the news item on FX760 in August 's issue of FlyPast stating 112 did not operate this aircraft but 3 Squadron RAAF ! |