Example sentences of "take [noun] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again .
2 Each runs one of the restaurants , and also takes responsibility for a major functional area .
3 The work of the mobile teams is purely facilitation and although local health workers are kept informed of the team 's work , the village takes responsibility for the next step .
4 iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace .
5 It is essential , however , that the student takes responsibility for the final decisions on the selection of strategies and means of implementation .
6 Chris takes guard for a final chase
7 The ‘ video conference ’ then takes place for a fee of between £80 and £120 for half an hour .
8 Researchers at Birmingham University say it sometimes takes years for an allergy to surface and it can be triggered by stress or overwork .
9 He takes charge for the match against Leigh on Saturday when Tony Rampling , an Australian forward , will make his debut for the club , who have lost all five matches so far .
10 In the evening he takes classes for the village children and perhaps acts as a model for their future .
11 It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever .
12 In youth we struggle to match fashionable expectations against our own shadowy sense of self ; it takes time for a secure identity to be born out of this .
13 Untanned skin takes time for the natural melanin pigment to be triggered off by sunrays and to rise to the surface to make you look brown .
14 It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge .
15 Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments .
16 Let's take Germany for a start .
17 On 21 September Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin , then in New York , that he favoured a declaration from the United Nations that it would take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the whole country .
18 Yet although culpable for serving him , Jax can not take responsibility for the three further moral crossroads through which the boy drove against the red lights — namely the decision to get drunk ; the decision to drive in that state ; and the decision to drive recklessly .
19 He will take responsibility for the five courses …
20 This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client .
21 Do you take responsibility for the day-to-day running of it ?
22 In so doing , they enable women to organise against their own victimisation and create the conditions in which men themselves may take responsibility for the reform of masculinity .
23 He suggests I should take responsibility for the actions of abusing men — that I should feel the guilt they obviously do not .
24 LASMO believes that as operator it must take responsibility for the care and protection of the environment and it must ensure that every aspect of its work is carried out in a safe and effective way .
25 To ensure that the external assessors are independent of , and are clearly seen as being independent of , the directors of the companies they assess , an audit review panel should take responsibility for the appointment , and the termination of the appointment , of the external assessors .
26 However , justifying the decision several days later , Markovic said : " Slovenia had refused all appeals from the federal government and I could no longer take responsibility for the further development of events in the republic . "
27 So suppliers must take responsibility for the delivery of fully-tested components .
28 It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track .
29 Let's take Ben for a long walk , eh ?
30 It would take months for the rocks to cool off , and about a thousand years for the steam in the air to condense back into the seas .
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