Example sentences of "[vb pp] to take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the main event is over , she is expected to take sons William , 10 , and Harry , eight , off to Althorp . |
| 2 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 3 | Repairs were expected to take weeks , so officers bought a new machine costing £4,000 . |
| 4 | Although the parquet was then expected to take steps to bring the document to the attention of the defendant , service was already complete and time began to run for various purposes regardless of the date upon which the defendant received actual notice of the proceedings . |
| 5 | City Of Joy , which is due for release in Britain next month , has given light to a showcase of talent such as Shabana Azmi and Om Puri , both of whom are tipped to take Oscars early next year . |
| 6 | ‘ Satellites can be programmed to take pictures at the customer 's request , ’ Dr Baker explained . |
| 7 | Only three attended the next meeting on 21st September , at which it was resolved to take steps to reduce the quorum from five to three , and the meeting adjourned ; two weeks later , however , steps had not been taken — in the absence of a quorum , of course , it was impossible — and the meeting had again to be adjourned with only four present . |
| 8 | Headway is goal-orientated : every aspect of the course has been designed to take students through and beyond the intermediate plateau to the advanced standard of English required at university and professional levels . |
| 9 | The first-year course is designed to take students from scratch to a level at which they can cope with simple Sanskrit texts ( the two texts studied in the first year are the Pancatantra , an ancient collection of humorous fables , and the Bhagavad Gita , the most revered of Hindu religious texts ) . |
| 10 | Banks are not designed to take risks . |
| 11 | The Hejaz line in the Middle East was primarily designed to take pilgrims to Mecca and Medina . |
| 12 | The time had come to take matters in hand . |
| 13 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 14 | Wilson , now also designated as general secretary , was instructed to take premises in Prospect Row , Sunderland , for a reading room , smoke room and office and have the necessary work done to make them usable for these purposes . |
| 15 | At this Pennethorne was instructed to take steps to purchase the remainder of the property authorized under the 1855 Act as soon as possible . |
| 16 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 17 | That in its turn means people feel empowered to take initiatives themselves without needing to be told what to do . |
| 18 | Pluralists are not explicitly concerned with the economic and social relationships outside the constitutional political system which can exert a constraining influence on the individuals who are empowered to take decisions within those institutions ( executive , legislature , bureaucracy and judiciary ) . |
| 19 | Angus reckoned that fast business expansion was absorbing all her time and energy , which was why he had decided to take things one step at a time and discuss only business over luncheon ; a business chat would avoid putting either of them in a rejecting position . |
| 20 | After consulting with financial experts in the City of London , the researchers , who are from University College London , Queen Mary & Westfield College , Imperial College and City University , have decided to take options pricing as a starting point for their project . |
| 21 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 22 | There A would have had to take proceedings for ‘ discovery ’ against B in Chancery to get the disclosure , and another action in the Common Law Courts for his actual claim . |
| 23 | ( The same two methods may be used to take notes from reading . ) |
| 24 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 25 | It is anyway doubtful whether he would have dared to take things further . |
| 26 | And only two years ago the common people had risen in anger , and themselves done to death the rebel earls and knights who had dared to take arms for Richard ! |
| 27 | In April last year a worker was told to take bottles to a handling bay for disposal . |
| 28 | He had been told to take photographs for the magazine , not to give to Ana . |
| 29 | His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him . |
| 30 | Our ancestors have always needed to take decisions involving risks and probabilities , and natural selection has therefore equipped our brains to assess probabilities against a background of the short lifetime that we can , in any case , expect . |