Example sentences of "to task [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point Eva turned and gesticulated towards me , as if she were taking him to task for something he 'd done to me . |
| 2 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 3 | It follows another MITI report , published this week , that takes America , the European Community and other large trading partners to task for their ‘ unfair trading practices ’ . |
| 4 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 5 | Barry Brittlebank ( Letters , 22nd January ) takes Penny Phillips to task for her usage in the question , ‘ How many years ’ experience does she recommend that an editor clock up ? ’ , and assumes that it should be ‘ clocks ’ . |
| 6 | Sir , Penny Phillips of Bloomsbury Publishing ( Letters , 8th January ) takes Susan Lamb of the Orion Group to task for her misuse of apostrophes and capitalisation . |
| 7 | It is not the first time he has taken his countrymen and women to task for what he considers their cultural failings . |
| 8 | Some 400 loyalists had gathered to explain their grievances about police action in the town and to call Ken Maginnis , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP who was the OUP law and order spokesman , to task for his description of the rioting as ‘ orchestrated thuggery ’ . |
| 9 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 10 | Further criticism came from foreign commentators who found his espousal of Western ideas too selective by far , taking him to task for his autocratic style , for underpinning his regime with the repressive Savak security apparatus , his sybaritic leisure-image — notably featuring snow and sun at St Moritz — and his failure to uproot corruption in his entourage . |
| 11 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |
| 12 | His retention of this argument is somewhat surprising given that Harloe ( 1984 ) took him to task for it in very exact terms in a rejoinder to an article on housing tenure , in which many of its central propositions were advanced . |
| 13 | It also takes the Treasury to task over its intention to create a new offence which will be committed by any person acting in the course of any trade , business or profession who does not report his money laundering suspicions . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |