Example sentences of "that [prep] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This time we have to hope that after taking only two points from our first three games in Group I , Scotland will do things in reverse order . ’ |
| 2 | It may even be that despite taking care with matching yourself to the job before making an initial application you may find out further information that will make you less enthusiastic about the job . |
| 3 | I also believe that upon taking up their post , all new post holders should receive a pack from HQ detailing their duties and rights , as well as outlining a training plan to support their work . |
| 4 | He saw that Lewis would not re-enter Christianity by a new door but by the old one : at least in the sense that in taking it up again he would also take up again or reawaken the prejudices so sedulously planted in childhood and boyhood . |
| 5 | Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives . |
| 6 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 7 | 587 , 596 : ‘ it seems to us that in taking the article from the shelf the customer is indeed assuming one of the rights of the owner — the right to move the article from its position on the shelf to carry it to the check-out . ’ |
| 8 | I emphasise that in taking that step , we have not formed any view on the planning merits of the proposal . |
| 9 | However , there is always a danger that in taking such measures a State may , intentionally or unintentionally , give undue assistance , and so promote its own industry at the expense of that of its trading partners . |
| 10 | The origins of Stalinism were partly prefigured in Lenin 's 1917 book , State and Revolution , which insisted that on taking power a socialist party could simply smash the existing state apparatus . |
| 11 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 12 | Nozick , the most recent exponent of entitlement theory , does not discuss the precise requirements for a morally just acquisition , but asserts that since taking property into private ownership will not in general prejudice the interests of others ( he argues that their welfare will be increased owing to the greater efficiency of an economy based on private property ) , a taking will normally be morally legitimate . |
| 13 | In his 1990 New Year address Museveni said that since taking power in 1986 his administration had reversed the decline in the economy , with the growth rate increasing from 2.4 per cent in 1986 to 7.4 per cent in 1988 , although Ugandans still had much hardship to bear in the form of higher prices . |
| 14 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 15 | Simon Tyler , of Chase de Vere , says that by taking the 5 per cent deferment ‘ borrowers can take out a loan for £84,000 and it will cost what a £50,000 repayment would with the Halifax ’ . |
| 16 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 17 | The most difficult problem comes with conveying the effect of transformation to lay audiences , who may be suspicious of statisticians ‘ fiddling with the numbers ’ ; someone might fear , for example , that by taking logs in figure 11.10 the real upward straggle in national wealth has been hidden . |
| 18 | She observes that by taking out the old fuse and putting a new one in she has caused the iron to work again . |
| 19 | BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that by taking decisions out of the hands of the pilot it can reduce the amount of noise that an aircraft makes . |
| 20 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |
| 21 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 22 | But it was also apparent that by taking control of the food supply the government had a powerful weapon against the movement — one that it used without hesitation . |
| 23 | The paper 's QC , George Carman , told the High Court jury that by taking his family on a free Spanish holiday with Mrs Bauwens during the Gulf crisis , Mr Mellor had made a serious error of judgment . |
| 24 | Marcus calculated that by taking into account property costs — estimated at a third of those in London — and salaries on average £2,000 lower , the paper should save £658,000 a year by being based in Manchester . |
| 25 | Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained . |
| 26 | There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that by taking away advertising you will , you will er , cut down smoking . |
| 27 | It is quite possible that by taking care of the old , the very young , the sick and others ‘ public services replace the old fashioned enlarged family and make the adults more available for employment , particularly the women who were traditionally responsible for household work and bringing up children . ’ |
| 28 | What is truly disturbing , is that by taking it upon themselves to speak of behalf of the nation , artists have collaborated with the regime . |
| 29 | So Sullivan actually thought that by taking the Shah , the US might gain points with the opposition , whose triumph he now regarded as inevitable . |
| 30 | Although he was an American citizen , the prosecution argued that by taking a British passport he owed allegiance to the Crown . |