Example sentences of "[vb pp] to take [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitors are expected to take part in athletics , swimming , badminton , tennis , squash , cyclng and golf . |
| 2 | The Revenue wished to consider whether adjustments needed to be made by virtue of s 485 , TA 1970 , whereby transactions carried out between buyers and sellers under common control are deemed to take place at market value . |
| 3 | Labour 's Coun. Jim Skinner said a planned review of bus routes could be modified to take account of air pollution levels . |
| 4 | If semantics is modified to take account of deixis , it becomes a context-conditional semantics , and the boundary between semantics and pragmatics becomes very blurred . |
| 5 | The first-year course is designed to take students from scratch to a level at which they can cope with simple Sanskrit texts ( the two texts studied in the first year are the Pancatantra , an ancient collection of humorous fables , and the Bhagavad Gita , the most revered of Hindu religious texts ) . |
| 6 | The time had come to take matters in hand . |
| 7 | Changes in the level of support in future years will only be made to take account of inflation or changes in the size and composition of the total population within each local authority area . |
| 8 | Wilson , now also designated as general secretary , was instructed to take premises in Prospect Row , Sunderland , for a reading room , smoke room and office and have the necessary work done to make them usable for these purposes . |
| 9 | Let us reduce it to two words , ‘ Be aware ’ , and define ‘ aware of X ’ as prepared to take X into account in choices . |
| 10 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 11 | This route follows railway lines built to take freight to West Granton Harbour ( in 1861 ) , Leith Docks ( 1864 ) . |
| 12 | The duties of the professor are , in summary , to pursue original research in the archaeology and art of Rome and its empire ; to give in each academic year at least 36 lectures and classes ; to promote the study of Roman Art and Archaeology at undergraduate level both in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores and related joint schools and in the new Honour School of Archaeology and Anthropology ; to play a leading part in the guidance , supervision , encouragement and examination of graduate students ; and also , when requested to take part in undergraduate examinations . |
| 13 | I 've had to take time off work to get my ticket . |
| 14 | So today it was lessons at home for some of the class provided by parents who 'd had to take time off work . |
| 15 | ( The same two methods may be used to take notes from reading . ) |
| 16 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 17 | the play equipment is in need of upgrading but this is not scheduled to take place till session 1995–96 . |
| 18 | the play equipment is in need of up-grading but this is not scheduled to take place till session 1995–96 . |
| 19 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 20 | Patients suffering from skin cancer are to be asked to take part in research aimed at proving a link between the disease and the radioactive gas radon . |
| 21 | In each case their representative raised the question of the lack of medical evidence , and said the authorities should not have rushed to take children into care on the basis of unchecked statements from other children . |
| 22 | In 1739 they complained of being forced to take remnants of cloth as payment . |
| 23 | For six years , they cheerfully raked in premiums for policies which paid the mortgage if you were made redundant or forced to take time off work because of sickness or accident . |
| 24 | Region forced to take action over sewage pollution |
| 25 | Provided the discrimination was not indirect and unintentional , damages can be awarded to take account of injury to feelings . |
| 26 | Officers were allowed to take part in board discussions , and they saw one of their main roles as being to help prevent negative decisions from being taken for trivial reasons . |
| 27 | Would it be lawful for instance , for workers to refuse to handle imports from South Africa ; would meat porters be allowed to take action in support of nurses . |
| 28 | ‘ Would meat porters be allowed to take action in support of nurses ? ’ |
| 29 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 30 | But Mr Major is likely be in power with the smallest Tory majority since 1951 and is now placed to take advantage of disarray in the Opposition parties and the expected economic recovery . |