Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 2 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 3 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 4 | At the same time , we will be paying special attention to the acquisition of management skills , providing specific training courses to develop in our trainees the confidence and resourcefulness needed to take on the responsibilities of running a busy section . |
| 5 | If the Committee wishes to take up the offer of a presentation of the plan perhaps Bob Allan could advise me of your meeting dates in January and February . |
| 6 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |
| 7 | Yeah I think it just depends whether the local group want to take up the option or not . |
| 8 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 9 | Further complications raised at the symposiumover whether Mantegna or Antonio Pollaiuolo takes precedence in these crucial early years of printmaking threatened to take over the proceedings until halted by the discussion 's Chairwoman , Caroline Elam , Editor of the Burlington Magazine . |
| 10 | When one looks at biological materials one is impressed with the enormous care which Nature seems to take over the interfaces when she is being , as it were , teleological . |
| 11 | In the computer distribution sector , Kontrax Office Automation Plc aims to take on the distribution of more products and launch a franchised dealer network while continuing to service large accounts direct . |
| 12 | There would have been no time for another member of the crew to try to take over the controls . |
| 13 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 14 | What plans does my hon. Friend have to take up the 20 ecu supplement to the suckler cow premium agreed by the Council of Ministers on 11 December ? |
| 15 | Then he and his wife retired to take on the Post Office at Romaldkirk , some time before the outbreak of war . |
| 16 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 17 | This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | If you are the victim of a game refuse to take on the bad feeling it leaves you with . |
| 19 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 20 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 21 | On top of everything else , my line had to take over the Cross at the foot of the hill . |
| 22 | Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option . |
| 23 | In a normal decay the photon and the nucleus share the energy release Q , so that the photon energy is less than Q. Similarly , when a photon is absorbed in the reverse process the nucleus recoils to take up the photon momentum and so acquires some kinetic energy . |