Example sentences of "taking [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surviving fry seek refuge among dense plant growth , taking on a leaf-like appearance and remaining entirely motionless , except to feed , and drifting lifelessly with the flow of water if shelter is lost . |
| 2 | His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks . |
| 3 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 4 | His voice dropped lower , taking on a steely edge that cut through the air . |
| 5 | Employees may feel a sense of powerlessness in taking on a large organization or it may be that advisers are more reluctant to take on large organizations . |
| 6 | Bradshaw 's technique , his whole life , was built on the twin pillars of strength and stamina ; he was used to taking on an unbeatable opposition and winning . |
| 7 | Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident . |
| 8 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 9 | The question at the time , in May 1941 , when the Vietminh was founded and Ho was talking bravely about taking on the combined French and Japanese armies in Vietnam was , of course , anachronistic : the two principal Allied powers had not yet entered the war . |
| 10 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 11 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
| 12 | WITH the new 10p coins we now have that annoying situation of some vending machines taking only the new coins and others taking only the old . |
| 13 | I also spoke of my difficulty in giving talks to the armed forces ; for nothing remotely intellectual was acceptable , and the only use which I felt I could be was in taking along a few maps and indicating the whereabouts of places increasingly mentioned on the wireless or the press ( though they read only the ‘ picture ’ papers ) . |
| 14 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 15 | Naval fears of the financial burden of taking over the Nuclear Deterrent and its effect on the size and shape of the Fleet were allayed by the unification of the |
| 16 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 17 | For Islington this meant that in addition to taking over the day-to-day running and management of the pre-school , school and adult educational facilities in its area , the borough had to provide resources in areas previously funded by ILEA , London-wide . |
| 18 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 19 | ‘ The position was ’ , he observes , ‘ thus reversed , the investors taking both a prior claim and a higher rate in the pound than was allowed the workers . ’ |
| 20 | Today I would like you to think about taking up a new interest or hobby . |
| 21 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better tell you , ’ he said , then turned away again , taking up a wooden spoon and stirring the soup . |
| 23 | They 're very popular with the tourists , I think they feel they are taking back a whole cheese as opposed to a portion cut off a bigger cheese . |
| 24 | Some people fight shy of taking out a Personal Loan because they are worried about meeting the monthly repayments if they are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment . |
| 25 | ‘ Our profit in this business will improve as we get better at taking out the raw materials and components , such as memory chips , that can be reused , ’ Domini says . |
| 26 | She observes that by taking out the old fuse and putting a new one in she has caused the iron to work again . |
| 27 | Success came overnight in neither case ; but a slow and steady improvement did take place , hauled back on to the right track at intervals by taking out the original contract and referring yet again to the agreed terms . |
| 28 | I abandoned the idea altogether of taking either the sovereign state or that vague concept , the national society , as the unit of analysis . |