Example sentences of "be to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm to be governess to a little boy in Edinburgh , and you 're to take charge of an antique loony in Penzance . |
| 2 | We 're to take this one , John . |
| 3 | I 'll inform all the men that they 're to take their orders from you . ’ |
| 4 | Well that 's why you 're to take that as soon as you get , as soon as you start morning . |
| 5 | They 're to take during the day . |
| 6 | If we 're to take this motion seriously erm the tories are suggesting that council housing should be restricted to those in mo most in need . |
| 7 | An editor 's directions to the writer of an article may be to take a populist approach , suitable for a wide audience . |
| 8 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ The sane thing to do would be to take perhaps half of the total sum , make a determined effort to find every surviving POW , and share the money equally with them . ’ |
| 10 | A second apparent option would be to take more students without additonal funding . |
| 11 | The sensible thing would be to take no notice , shut the window and come back to bed . |
| 12 | It seems that there was a lukewarm response from Britain , where the feeling was that since a legitimate heir existed ( the Prince of the Asturias ) , the best solution would be to take up Napoleon III 's former proposal for a regency . |
| 13 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 14 | A simple example in the case of the university student population would be to take the faculties of the university ( let us say there are then , just for example ) and take a sample of two of them . |
| 15 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 16 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 17 | A good way of practising would be to take all these examples through all the keys . |
| 18 | The second strong PR option would be to take the opposite line , to say how outrageous it is that there is all this terrible auditing going on , and to promise painful retribution for the wrongdoers . |
| 19 | If your debtor has money and no legitimate excuse for not paying what he owes you , the only solution may be to take him to court . |
| 20 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 21 | But they did n't care , tending to the view that the City was a viper 's nest of scheming capitalists , whose sole reason for investing would be to take the paper over . |
| 22 | Another would be to take photographs of the moon on the horizon , and in the meridian , without altering the camera settings , and compare the size of the moon on the two prints . |
| 23 | It was paralleled by a Council of Ministers whose main function would be to take action and legislate on the basis of the Commission 's proposals . |
| 24 | The immediate aim , especially for the average and more able pupils , should probably be to take what is done to a greater length than to introduce content that is new . |
| 25 | Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary . |
| 26 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 27 | ‘ the thing to do would be to take an optical theodolite up there and measure it . ’ |
| 28 | This suggests that a good test would be to take a potent scientific innovation and compare its reception in Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 29 | One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 . |
| 30 | Women 's role will be to take part in this work of construction after the revolution . |