Example sentences of "for [pers pn] to take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
2 | When people do cross the threshold of the church , do we make it easy for them to take that step ? |
3 | yeah so they 've agreed for me to take fifteen pound a week instead of ten |
4 | I 've found that it was very necessary for me to take some time to get a grasp of what is a very complex situation and it would be rather foolish to jump in too quickly . |
5 | It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals . |
6 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
7 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
8 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
9 | In January 1989 the human rights organization Amnesty International urged the government to investigate numerous killings of trade union leaders and called for it to take immediate action over the suspected participation of police and members of the judiciary in harassment of and death threats against peasant leaders . |