Example sentences of "be take [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE COST ‘ We have an initiative which is still under wraps for the moment but which we will be taking during the election campaign , ’ he said .
2 ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets .
3 On Saturday , the environmental campaigners will be taking to the streets of Colchester to urge furniture buyers to boycott stores which stock products made of mahogany .
4 Eight hundred competitors will be taking to the water this weekend for the annual River Wye raft race .
5 Some of the world 's finest vintage aircraft will be taking to the skies at a display this weekend .
6 This weekend , top harmonica player Brendan Power and guitarist Frank Kilkelly will be taking to the stage , at around 8pm .
7 I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February .
8 People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words .
9 We hope to stage another competition next year , but this time the photos will have to be taken during the year to be eligible . ’
10 In turn , the gravels are themselves overlain by alluvial silty uniform sands around the junction with A8 and by lacustrine silty clay , peat and silt , associated with the former Gogar Loch , around the Gogar Burn and along South Gyle Broadway , and special measures had to be taken during the construction of embankments in these areas in order to avoid over-stressing the sub-strata and to accelerate the anticipated settlements .
11 Special care must always be taken during the climb away if single-strand wire is being used , because there is no sudden jerk or noise if a kink breaks early on the launch .
12 In warm weather , dehydration is a serious problem , and sufficient liquid must be taken during the flight even if this has its disadvantages afterwards !
13 — effects that depend on the arrival time of words can be modelled , allowing ’ snapshots ’ to be taken during the processing of a sentence that induces a ’ cognitive double-take ’ ;
14 This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on .
15 Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica .
16 The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses .
17 Erm the editors say that , and I rely upon this because it 's important in my submission , that it is submitted that a wider view might be taken as the function of a solicitor as expert witnesses .
18 But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom .
19 However , the NIAAF are emphasising that the number travelling to Holland is not to be taken as the number likely to go the Commonwealth Games .
20 The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced .
21 The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field …
22 The current expenditure on these tax benefits would be taken as the cash ceiling .
23 ‘ Shake ’ could be taken as the fear the poet has for the ‘ cold ’ of oncoming death and ‘ ruined ’ illuminates the idea of deterioration .
24 If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge .
25 The idea of ‘ flooded classrooms ’ might be taken as the product of bureaucratic desperation .
26 The buoyancy force is provided by δρ c ( which is , in the first place , the difference between upgoing and downgoing fingers , but , in view of the above discussion , may be taken as the difference between top and bottom ) .
27 I think I need to say on that , that that should not be taken as the county council sitting on the fence between two opposing er extremes .
28 In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured .
29 If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable .
30 The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go .
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