Example sentences of "[vb mod] take [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marenches claimed later that the king replied that the Shah was his guest and that was that , Then , Marenches , says , he had to convince the king that his other duties , including the straits of Gibraltar , which was 'so vital for the camp of liberty " , must take precedence over hospitality . |
| 2 | ( Two hundred years earlier , as she demonstrates in her article , it was not seen as arbitrary , but prescribed quite explicitly on the grounds that the masculine was the ‘ worthier gender ’ and must take precedence in grammar as it did in nature . ) |
| 3 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 4 | Sir : I must take issue with Janet Daley 's article on a supposed connection between poverty and language ( 4 October ) . |
| 5 | EUROPEAN Cup Winners ' Cup Division B champions Pegasus must take part in women 's hockey 's Sharwoods Irish Senior Cup preliminary round for the third successive season . |
| 6 | If only because they are the sole member of their order , the Dermoptera , which means ‘ skin-winged ’ , the colugos must take pride of place . |
| 7 | As there is no real dollar clearing and settlement system outside the USA , all euro-dollar transactions/settlements must take place through banks in New York using their clearing house system . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the demonstrative does not merely give crude emphasis to a referent ; it suggests that although the element is " known " some extra processing effort must take place in order for it to be accessed . |
| 9 | The court stated : ‘ The copyright law is governed by the principle of territoriality , which means that in order for German law to apply , at least a portion of the auction must take place in Germany ’ . |
| 10 | The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 . |
| 11 | We must take note of trends and changes , we must recognise pressures as pressures , we may need to broaden our concepts and tolerance in marital issues and family concerns : but at least we can be fairly sure that marriage and the family as we know them will outlast our time . |
| 12 | Because you would have received your pay and benefits net of tax if you had worked , your damages must take tax into account . |
| 13 | We 'll leave bathing it for the moment ; I must take care of Effie and the afterbirth . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you ever aspire to being a gentleman , ’ she said with quiet dignity , ‘ you must take care of Katarina . ’ |
| 15 | The change must take effect by March 1996 . |
| 16 | ‘ The sentence imposed must take account of public opinion and aim to leave all concerned with a feeling that justice has been done . ’ |
| 17 | It should also be clear that future investigations and policies must take account of class and gender and be sensitive to possible differences between minority black communities . |
| 18 | The judges must take account of advice from a lay-dominated advisory committee and the Director-General of Fair Trading . |
| 19 | The campaign revolved around the issue of whether negotiations with the drug cartels to end the current violence should take precedence over efforts to bring them to justice . |
| 20 | In evaluating the Copernican system , for example , mathematical criteria should take precedence over interpretations of Scripture , which may have become normative but only through ignorance . |
| 21 | Horvath 's re-graphing of some of Labov 's data in terms of ‘ natural ’ linguistic groupings even suggests that sex should take precedence over class as the major speaker variable ; she remarks that ‘ if social class is seen to take precedence , then these other social dimensions might remain hidden or only dimly perceived ’ ( Horvath 1985 : 64 ) . |
| 22 | A 20mm ( ¼in ) overflow pipe from near the top of the tank should take water by gravity ( with a fall of 1 in 10 minimum ) to 150mm ( 6in ) or so beyond the outer walls of the house where its discharge will be safe and visible . |
| 23 | Recent proposals that S.C.F. should take responsibility for fleets belonging to other NGO 's in Ethiopia have caused The Fund to seek TRANSAID 's help in examining the needs of the organisation including the development of a workshop in the Capital . |
| 24 | All teachers are or should take responsibility for guidance work . |
| 25 | Rather more controversial would be deciding which tournament should take pride of place in the European clay court season leading into Paris . |
| 26 | This does n't mean that you should take time off work ; quite the opposite , as it is preferable that you remain occupied while on the diet . |
| 27 | Most of the agencies that we shall be describing in the following sections would claim to offer information , advice and assistance but some are dubious as to the extent to which they should take action on behalf of a client and some will refer a matter on to specialists when they reach the limits of their competence . |
| 28 | We should take note of reports that the Ove Arup route chosen by the Government will wreck a £1 billion scheme for 7,000 jobs and 6 , 500 new homes , which apparently have already been approved in principle by the Department of the Environment , in the Barking reach area of the Thames . |
| 29 | The 1920 Census Act specified that population enumerations should take place at intervals of not less than five years , conducted by the Registrars General of England and Wales , of Scotland and of Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | A serious controversy arose when the Wawne clergy decided that all the burials from Sutton should take place at Wawne . |