Example sentences of "taking [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 2 | The favoured solution , the nationalization of the arms firms , was generally presented as an anti-monopoly measure quite acceptable to liberals , not as ( what actually it would have been ) the state taking over the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 3 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 4 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 5 | Holyfield 's men , and there are plenty of them , including a woman as ballet coach , are certain that he will emerge as a true heavyweight champion , capable of taking out the big men of the division . |