Example sentences of "[art] [noun] taking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 2 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 3 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 4 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 5 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 6 | In the Baronnies you can see where the country is going hang , and very pretty it looks of course , with wild flowers flourishing where there were once crops or grazing animals , and the woodlands taking over cleared hillsides . |
| 7 | If the children are unused to the teacher taking on a role , however , they will want to push you into an authority role . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You may not need as much as that , but erm Bacteria , nitrates in the soil and the plants taking up the nitrates some of the plants . |
| 10 | Three thousand miles away in North Hollywood , in November , the man closes the door behind him and stands in the foyer taking off his hat . |
| 11 | Strolling quietly together down the gravel paths of the old-fashioned Elizabethan knot garden , which was her mother 's pride and joy , Laura found the evening taking on a completely different complexion . |
| 12 | Some university departments are so aware of the possibility of the compulsion taking over that they make efforts to prevent their brightest students drowning in a sea of output . |
| 13 | THE station taking over from Thames inherits 10.6 million viewers and promises a strong blend of drama and comedy . |
| 14 | Actually , this might have been quite productive since therapy is supposed to be a microcosm of your relationships , with the therapist taking on multiple roles . |
| 15 | At the Goldstone I bet he 'll go past three or four players , and then lose the ball taking on a fifth instead of putting our strikers in . |
| 16 | Bulkhead pontoons and rafts were also produced alongside these Assault Boats , the whole taking up one bay in the Wagon Shop . |
| 17 | The first is that whether we have in mind the student taking on the demands of the rational life , or the individual discipline considered as a rational endeavour , or an institution of higher education : for each of them rationality is neither static nor a definite end-point . |
| 18 | I should make it clear that my construction did not depend upon the children of the staff taking up surplus places in the sense that if there were sufficient fee paying pupils , the staff 's children would not be given a place . |
| 19 | It 's our oldest colony and we need someone of your calibre to stop the Americans taking over . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So in a sense community charge was being watered down as a factor by the state taking over payment in a sense . |
| 22 | Such a decision would , of course , require the acceptance of the State taking on the responsibility ( and its cost ) . |
| 23 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 24 | There is nothing special about the particular Mont Blanc that we know , nothing specified in advance , nothing equivalent to the plane taking off , or equivalent to the safe door swinging open and the money tumbling out . |
| 25 | On the new album , Bring it on Home to Me stands out : mean Tyneside vocals and Irish pipes gloriously underpin the moody soul structures of Sam Cooke 's classic , the pipes taking off at one point as if on a Claptonesque guitar solo . |
| 26 | the rest of the crowd taking up stances |
| 27 | The second is that there were variations by team which reinforced what our interviews and observations had identified , namely , that different philosophies prevailed — the two city teams being developmental ‘ purists ’ , Bassetlaw championing an ‘ integrated casework and development ’ model and the others taking up intermediate positions . |
| 28 | The position was rectified only slowly , the USA taking on first part and then , by the end of 1947 , the whole of the burden . |
| 29 | If we ignore the business , then it would be a case of the law of the jungle taking over . ’ |
| 30 | Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items . |