Example sentences of "[verb] been to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her very personal ‘ aid programme ’ has been to take knitting machines , yarn and teaching skills to provide a means of earning a living for people trapped by the present poverty of their country . |
| 2 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 3 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 4 | I think my skill has been to take the legacy and build on it . |
| 5 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 6 | The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog . |
| 7 | His concession to the warmth of the room has been to take off his topmost cardigan . |
| 8 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 9 | But the only powers they would have then had to stop contact with the abuser would have been to take the children into care . |
| 10 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 11 | One of his ideas had been to take a small naval party with him who would attempt to scuttle a ship in the harbour mouth . |
| 12 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 13 | Cecil Powell 's contribution had been to take images of the particles by sending emulsions to the upper atmosphere in balloons , where cosmic rays hit them . |
| 14 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 15 | I do n't think they 've been to take the photographs yet |
| 16 | I 've been to take the registers there to hill |
| 17 | ‘ Fred 's been to take Dad out for a drink , ’ they explained . |