Example sentences of "[verb] to take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One ship came into Cawsand Bay and landed men who ‘ … hanged up barrels of matter fit to take fire upon certain doors by which a train should have burnt the houses ’ . |
| 2 | KPMG , for example , being an authorised person , would not be permitted to take advantage of the exemption so as to avoid the need to approve an advertisement ( or Information memorandum ) issued in its own name . |
| 3 | It asked that members of the Republican Movement be permitted to take part in a civil rights march to Dungannon from Coalisland … |
| 4 | A statement in early September 1989 by the National Assembly Speaker , Saadi Medhi Saleh , had referred to the regime 's commitment to a multiparty system , although decisions regarding the political forces which would be permitted to take part in it would be left to the " near future " . |
| 5 | The bishop and the blacksmith may travel third class together , and chat by the way ; but they will not be permitted to take luncheon side by side in the first-class refreshment room , if the blacksmith , like the bishop , wears the apron of his calling . |
| 6 | A saving throw of 6 is permitted to take account of the Squig . |
| 7 | After Craig had announced on Thursday 3 October that the Apprentice Boys march was to be banned and that the civil rights march would not be permitted to take place within the walled city or in the Waterside ward , an emergency meeting of the NICRA executive committee was called . |
| 8 | Mass rallies commemorating Azerbaijanis killed in Baku in January were permitted to take place by the military authorities controlling the city . |
| 9 | ( 4.3 ) unc ( 4.4 ) unc On the other hand , when P does terminate immediately , SEQ ( P , Q ) behaves like Q modified to take account of any assignment by P. |
| 10 | At a one-donkey crossroads deep in the Algarve countryside , we stopped to take photographs . |
| 11 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 12 | The Dragoons advanced to within rifle range and stopped to take aim . |
| 13 | This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] . |
| 14 | In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods . |
| 15 | The course is adapted for each group , and the group itself has to take responsibility for completing the assigned tasks . |
| 16 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 17 | It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated . |
| 18 | ‘ If the woman has to take money out of her purse then she has to use two hands and children can easily stray . ’ |
| 19 | Dr Davey said : ‘ Any health service with limited resources has to take economics into account in its health care decisions . |
| 20 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 21 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 22 | Nancy Harrison has to take life one step at a time … after she found she has osteoporosis , a disease which weakens the skeleton and causes fragile bones . |
| 23 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 24 | Today 's quarry owner has to take account of the environmental issues his predecessor could safely ignore . |
| 25 | And above all , as you know better than anybody , the ‘ biology of aesthetic pleasure ’ , which you have just explained , has to take account of differences between epochs , civilisations and , obviously , within the same society , between individuals . |
| 26 | In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common . |
| 27 | Any assessment of Britain 's economic performance has to take account of these powerful external forces . |
| 28 | It seems beyond question that any sensible approach to the teaching of writing has to take account of the process of writing . |
| 29 | Shortages of labour in the immediate post-war period meant that this pattern of female industrial employment was not reversed overall , although it was in traditional basic industries , and any discussion of production post-1945 has to take account of a far larger North Shields female employed proletariat than had existed pre-War . |
| 30 | We noted , for example , that the discourse analyst has to take account of the context in which a piece of discourse occurs . |