Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , post-puberty is the time when peer group friendships may take over from parents as the major influence . |
| 2 | Two years ago the couple , who never had children , took over as tenants of the Midland Hotel , opposite Central Station , Liverpool , before separating . |
| 3 | and I think it was one of things which never really took off in terms of the accident |
| 4 | I do n't want him to know we 've got divers aboard and I especially do n't want him to see me taking off with divers in the general direction of the Delos . |
| 5 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 6 | but how do you I mean do you have to be taken on as officers of the R A F |
| 7 | Nobody became more interested in the fate of these early directors than Scott Fitzgerald , and his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is essentially about how directors were taken over by producers in the Hollywood system . |
| 8 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 9 | The Darlington Lions Club shop is to be taken over by changes to the reception area of the King 's Head Hotel . |
| 10 | Today , Finniston runs his own small firm ( small by comparison with British Steel at any rate ) , but at least fifty per cent of his time is now taken up with interests outside the corporate world . |
| 11 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 12 | Approximately one-third of all beds in gynaecological wards are taken up by women in the same condition . |
| 13 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |
| 14 | During 18–19 July the rebellion was taken up by garrisons on the Spanish mainland , spreading roughly northwards from Andalusia . |
| 15 | A strike call by the Sacred Union on Feb. 3 was taken up by workers across the country . |
| 16 | However , although the results of validity generalisation studies are impressive and constitute a strong argument in favour of using ability tests for personnel selection , it has yet to be seen to what extent its conclusions will be taken up by practitioners in the field . |
| 17 | This is an approach taken up by consultancies in the early 1980s to tackle a client 's problems where corporate work is involved or the company image situation , manufacturing base , or product range is complex . |