Example sentences of "was take part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 2 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 3 | One embarrassing experience involved Jan Leeming , the television personality , who was taking part in a film I was producing . |
| 4 | At the far end of the corridor , almost in front of the large window , at that moment filled with grey light and rain , my father 's figure could be seen frozen in a posture that suggested he was taking part in some ceremonial ritual . |
| 5 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 6 | Again , it is a peculiarity of unfair dismissal law that an industrial tribunal does not have the power to consider the fairness of dismissal where at the time of dismissal the employer was conducting a lockout or the employee was taking part in a strike or other industrial action . |
| 7 | A young man called Fitzroy Stanislav , from Victoria School , was taking part . |
| 8 | His most serious offence in that time was taking part in a robbery while armed with a crossbow . |
| 9 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 10 | He seemed to be enjoying a feeling that he was taking part in a daring conversation . |
| 11 | Keen sailor Rod , 41 , of Nutley , East Sussex , was taking part in a yachting festival on the Isle of Wight when disaster struck . |
| 12 | W.G. Grace was taking part in a match for London County against Warwickshire , opening the batting with W.L. Murdoch and playing in a fashion which reminded contemporary reporters of his heyday , and C.B. Fry was scoring a century for Sussex . |
| 13 | A student at one of our universities was taking part in one of those unproductive confrontations between students and senior members of the university . |
| 14 | Gesualdo 's later madrigals , however fascinating their scent of decadence , are an evolutionary dead end ; Monteverdi was taking part in the transformation of the madrigal into something quite different , though in view of his dramatic and pictorial ability it is strange that he neglected to produce one of those suites of madrigals popular at the time ( comedie armoniche ) realistically describing women gossiping at the wash ( Striggio 's Cicalamento delle donne al bucato , 1567 ) , Venetian scenes ( Croce 's Triaca musicale , 1596 ) , or a complete commedia dell'arte ( the Am–parnaso , 1597 , of Orazio Vecchi ( 1550–1605 ) , the outstanding masterpiece of this genre ) , and a whole series of works by Banchieri . |
| 15 | ‘ Those waters were not particularly dangerous — perhaps she was taking part in some way in the ‘ pacification ’ of the Highlands . |
| 16 | She had the oddest impression that she was taking part in a play , for which she knew neither her lines , nor the stage directions . |
| 17 | From 1943 onwards he probably did n't miss a single performance in which I was taking part and he must have seen Us in Traviata every time it was done . |
| 18 | The balloon was taking part in a promotional stunt for a ballooning festival planned for later this year . |
| 19 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 20 | The man , who has not been named , was a passenger in a German army Jeep which was taking part in a NATO exercise on Salisbury Plain . |
| 21 | The popular butcher was taking part in the annual rally of the Spanish Point Flying Club in Co Clare yesterday . |
| 22 | A Ministry of Defence official was unable to say if the vehicle which collided with a truck was taking part in a British Forces exercise in Voss near Bergen . |
| 23 | to take part which should be quite interesting I have n't really discussed it in detail with him because I was n't sure who else was taking part and what sort of format we 're thinking of having |
| 24 | The Grey , trained by Colin Campbell , and ridden by Stephen Deasley , was taking part in his first race for nearly 2 years . |
| 25 | I also found time to undertake occasional voluntary speaking engagements , one of which in October 1969 was to take part in Lord McLeod of Fuinary 's Rectorial debate at Glasgow University . |
| 26 | All the actors are local people but the company would n't allow anyone from the works was to take part … she says , It was very disappointing initially but in some ways that makes it more important that we should go ahead with the project . |