Example sentences of "the [noun] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | did succeed in persuading Croydon Corporation to let them work their tramways on a lease and shortly afterwards , they had the opportunity to take over two new tramway schemes , outside but adjoining Croydon boundaries . |
| 2 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 3 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 4 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 5 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 6 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 7 | At night the boiler took over , roaring and trembling until dawn . |
| 8 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 9 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 10 | The process is of course , the reverse of the lowering , the ladders being used until it is raised to forty-five degrees , then the ropes take over . |
| 11 | Shiver as the shit took over , nudged her open , swelled , dropped softly out . |
| 12 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 13 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 14 | It is a scheme that is er , an alternative to placement in children 's homes , for adolescents with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties , erm , whereby er , specialist er , foster parents er , are , are , recruited , they are extensively trained , and er , have the willingness to take on what are difficult and challenging youngsters and er , who are placed with them . |
| 15 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 16 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
| 17 | The temperature at which this freedom of the chains to take up any configuration allowed by the bond angle cone occurs will depend upon the chemical composition of the polymer , which , in turn , determines the depth and shape of the energy wells governing the probability of any configuration through a Boltzmann factor . |
| 18 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 19 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 20 | When sport fails to deal adequately with the excesses of its performers , it is right and proper for the courts to take over . |
| 21 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 22 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 23 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 24 | Most times the squadron took off and returned safely , and gradually the life at Bourn changed . |
| 25 | In the case of Russia , revisionist research has underlined the manner in which the specific nature of the tsarist regime conditioned the decision to take on the Central Powers . |
| 26 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
| 27 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
| 28 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
| 29 | But to have the decision taken out of her hands like that was irritating and downright unfair . |
| 30 | Bath 's No.8 is the favourite to take over from the British Lion after Leicester confirmed yesterday that Richards would miss the rest of the season . |