Example sentences of "[noun] be to take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 2 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 3 | The normal practice is to take someone who is incontinent , and who may also be confused , to the toilet at regular intervals and before meals . |
| 4 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |
| 5 | A cheaper alternative is to take your own small rucksack . |
| 6 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 7 | Mayne 's plan was to take his fighting patrols out into the Great Sand Sea and establish a forward base , from which they could sally out and harass the enemy . |
| 8 | Such was the disturbed world in which the young impressionable Nasser was to take his first steps in politics in the 1930s . |
| 9 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 10 | From southern latitudes , where Sagittarius can pass overhead , there is plenty to see ; I have always found that the best way to identify the various clusters and nebulæ is to take them ‘ one by one ’ , using the nearest naked-eye stars as guides . |
| 11 | CARERS fighting new £25a-week charges for mentally handicapped people to attend day centres are to take their campaign to Westminster . |
| 12 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 13 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 14 | The only proper way to acknowledge the arbitrator 's authority is to take it to be a reason for action which replaces the reasons on the basis of which he was meant to decide . |
| 15 | The one thing that remains within your control is to take your business elsewhere ; if the tills stop ringing in the shops responsible , maybe things will change … |
| 16 | If he came sniffing round , Davide was to take him off somewhere . |
| 17 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 18 | He told her his instructions were to take her wherever she wanted to go , but nothing else . |
| 19 | The threat of ‘ arrest ’ becomes the threat of fixity , of stabilized forms , whereas the thrust of the novel is to take us further and further away from such stability . |
| 20 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 21 | If the management of Stringfellows Nightclub in London 's West End were to take their snobbish door-policy to its ultimate conclusion and investigate the social backgrounds of their glittering clientele , at least one regular would be out on his ear . |
| 22 | The best way to learn these modes is to take them one at a time and examine the construction of each one . |
| 23 | If Barbara is to take her case to court she would currently have to pay a contribution of more than £700 towards her civil legal aid . |
| 24 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 25 | His answer was to take her in his arms and press her close to him . |
| 26 | Holding out her hand , her smile wide , she said , ‘ It 's good to see you home again , Martin , ’ and his answer was to take her hand and kiss her on the cheek and say , ‘ It 's good to be home , Aunt . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that the efficient way to plan projects is to take them in order of priority — the marketing function has a major interest in priority setting — and allocate to each in turn the maximum amount of resources it can usefully employ . |
| 28 | So we , on the small scale , for just bits and pieces , got m several jobs and one of them was moving stuff from the biology labs and the physics labs from Archbishop 's to take it all the way across town to go to Queen Anne 's school . |
| 29 | Sorry I 've been a while , I went into mum 's to take her shopping in and Uncle Philip was there . |
| 30 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |