Example sentences of "was [verb] to take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 2 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 3 | Following the Supreme 's Court 's endorsement of Noonan 's ruling , the case was due to return to the Appeals Court to be reviewed by a panel of judges , a process which was expected to take several months . |
| 4 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
| 5 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |
| 6 | Corporate Manager Ian Redpath also praised the test but admitted he , too , was told to take more exercise . |
| 7 | It was ‘ the sport of kings ’ after all , and however dangerous , Charles was determined that no one was going to take that pleasure away from him . |
| 8 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 9 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ But I told him I was going to take legal action , ’ she says . |
| 11 | All the same he was going to take another look . |
| 12 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 13 | He was going to take any opportunity he could to get her off his team , so there was little point in her trying to argue her case with him . |
| 14 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
| 15 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
| 16 | Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals . |
| 17 | Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I was asked to take two horses from Ireland and this was one of them . |
| 19 | Bhishma Narain Singh , a senior Congress ( I ) leader , was then appointed as Governor of Tamil Nadu , while the Uttar Pradesh Governor , B. Satya Narain Reddy , was appointed to take additional charge of Bihar . |
| 20 | Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop . |
| 21 | She said that also now her cousin 's staying with them so Vernon was trying to take this cousin out to see the sort of surrounding district er |
| 22 | But in 1976 the recruitment market was dire and she was advised to take any job offered . |
| 23 | The SEC was proposing to take legal action against several Florida citizens over their alleged involvement with Pilgrim Venture . |
| 24 | If the LTE accounts showed a deficit , the GLC was required to take such action as appeared necessary and appropriate to enable the LTE to balance its books ( section 7(6) ) . |