Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As social services takes over responsibilities for the community care there will be a qualitative difference between social fund officers ’ decisions concerning packages of care if both are controlled by cash-limited budgets . |
| 2 | He expressed the hope that these corporate bodies would not only take on responsibilities for regulating economic activity but would also form a moral community for their members . |
| 3 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 4 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what steps his Department is taking on proposals for new EC legislation or regulations on nutritional supplements ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | Although as Eleanor Gordon has remarked , the family wage was hardly a reality for most Scottish working-class families , its notional existence had an impact on wages paid to women : if the normal " women 's wage " was low , employers taking on women for newly created jobs were unlikely to look to the male rate as a guide . |
| 6 | This commitment has manifested itself in many ways , e.g. sending out people to speak at schools , inviting school groups to tour the centre , awarding business scholarships to sixth formers and taking on pupils for work experience . |
| 7 | Gareth 's eventual ambition is to become a freelance commercial artists taking on commissions for a living . |
| 8 | In 1918 , the C.T.D.D. and N.C.T.D. merged to form the National College of Teachers of the Deaf ( N.C.T.D. ) which took over examinations for the diploma in the teaching of deaf children . |
| 9 | Profitable exports were handled through the port of Berwick-upon-Tweed until , in the middle of the fifteenth century , the kings themselves saw the advantages of taking over pastures for their own flocks , storing the wool at Selkirk and then shipping it out via Leith . |
| 10 | Thomas Forster was the only English Tory MP who actually took up arms for the Pretender . |
| 11 | In 1859 he became manager of De Bergue 's , bridge-builders of Manchester , and took out patents for an improved steam hammer whose manufacture was started in his own Cleveland engine works in Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | He retailed mathematical , scientific , and optical instruments , collaborating with ( Sir ) David Brewster [ q.v. ] on the kaleidoscope ( 1816 ) , and took out patents for hydrometers and spectacle frames . |
| 13 | ( The TRAGEDIANS have taken up positions for the continuation of the mime : which in this case means a love scene , sexual and passionate , between the QUEEN and the POISONER/KING . ) |
| 14 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |
| 15 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 16 | He has taken out patents for the process and for the chips . |
| 17 | In a recent article in the Irish Times , referring to the ‘ job creation ’ units set up by the Catholic Church , the paper hailed the clergy with the headline , ‘ Priests take on Provos for the People 's hearts ’ . |
| 18 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 19 | I had an ultimatum from Great-gran : if I take up proceedings for a divorce , then I go out of here , but dear Andrew stays . ’ |