Example sentences of "to take [noun sg] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the crucial step is to take responsibility for that belief .
2 You must discover how and when to take part in that sharing .
3 Procedural rights are also seem as protecting human dignity by ensuring that the individual is told why he is being treated unfavourably , and by enabling him to take part in that decision .
4 The ability to take such proceedings might well restrict or prevent public discussion of matters of public importance despite the willingness of any person wishing to take part in that discussion to take every reasonable precaution to avoid defamatory imputation against any identifiable individual .
5 In the UK , if a talented person applies for a job he will be turned away if there is no vacancy ; in the USA a job is likely to be created to take advantage of that person 's talents .
6 NAFTA has been strongly criticized by environmentalists on the grounds that it will lead to " dirty " US industries moving into Mexico to take advantage of that country 's more relaxed environmental standards , and that other environmental considerations for all three countries will be sacrificed for the principle of free trade at any cost .
7 For example , a receptionist at a solicitor 's office will no doubt meet clients but it would be most unusual for her to be in a position to take advantage of that connection to the detriment of her employer once she has left his employment .
8 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take to take effect within that period ; and in this definition the expression " term of years " includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year …
9 Is n't it time to take hold of that lead by realising their true marketing potential ?
10 After careful deliberation my right hon. and learned Friend made a statement on 9 October to the effect that he intended to ask British Rail to refine Ove Arup 's proposed eastern approach to London sufficiently to allow public consultation to take place on that route and , indeed , for it to be safeguarded .
11 Neither was there the level of ability among an elite of managers for decision making to take place at that level in the organisation and then to be passed down by functionaries , as in the French system .
12 ‘ Nothing , but nothing , is ever allowed to take precedence over that meeting .
13 I should certainly like to see the Bill amended to take care of that point .
14 He said that the car must be ready by 25th July 1948 or he would refuse to take delivery after that date .
15 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
16 We have to take account of that article and ask what difference the Bill will make in this respect .
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