Example sentences of "[noun sg] was taking [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 2 | He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place . |
| 3 | Killion stood and let the cold air chill him , as a kind of left-handed penance for not being at the Front where all that pounding and pulverizing of flesh and bone and blood with steel and explosive was taking place . |
| 4 | A triangular pond was taking shape and trees , shrubs , seats and market barrow style stalls are planned for the aisles . |
| 5 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 6 | She was still unsure on the Friday night when she sat beside Luke at a table shared with Giles and Ursula Estwick and a famous local actress married to a slightly less famous politician , in one of Taipei 's luxury hotels , the massive second-floor chamber in which the televised awards ceremony was taking place officially and quaintly designated the Ballroom . |
| 7 | When the oath of loyalty to Alexander II was administered in Moscow on 19 February 1855 , a bell fell through three floors of a Kremlin church where the ceremony was taking place and prompted speculation on the part of the common people that the new tsar would be dogged by misfortune . |
| 8 | These proposals had come forward without any consultation with any health minister , and indeed without any of us knowing that such a study was taking place . |
| 9 | Almost half the respondents said they experienced feelings of disapproval , sadness or disgust ; only 26 per cent had felt anger or resentment towards the white authorities or pleasure that rioting was taking place . |
| 10 | ‘ If you 're going to enjoy Tivoli as it deserves to be enjoyed , I think for tonight at least we should call a truce , ’ he suggested , apparently unaware of her intense reaction to his touch , as they walked past the Pantominteatret , where a performance of the traditional Italian pantomime was taking place on the open-air stage . |
| 11 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 12 | Indeed , most of the fighting was taking place there . |
| 13 | The oil spread to the plaintiff 's wharf where welding was taking place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that the site of the former mill ponds — known as ‘ the cut ’ in Scorton had again been opened and that tipping was taking place there . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , while the statute was taking shape the nobility were able to reduce the quantity and quality of land in peasant hands and to extract limited amendments to the legislative proposals . |
| 17 | It was in the Transport Workers , above all , that the main battle was taking place , with the Ford dispute leading to another threatened strike by British Oxygen workers , and finally a conclusive dispute amongst the drivers of long-distance lorries and oil tankers . |
| 18 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 19 | At least the morning plan was taking shape . |
| 20 | I believed the military had notified pilots that a military exercise was taking place so the pilopts were on general alert . |
| 21 | But , speaking on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme , he described as ‘ misleading ’ a report in The Guardian this morning that correspondence on this issue was taking place between the Treasury and the Health Department . |
| 22 | The hall where the Children 's Clothes Exchange was taking place was organized by another bossy lady in green uniform , sitting importantly behind a desk in the doorway . |
| 23 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |
| 24 | Many people involved with the alleged child abuse case in South Ronaldsay think that the roots for believing that ‘ ritual ’ abuse was taking place in the island were established at that controversial summer camp . |
| 25 | In the context of these investigations , I used the concept of danger clues to describe any piece of information that would tend to alert a social worker to suspect that child abuse was taking place.s An important source of danger clues was obviously to be found in the condition of the child , particularly its physical state and behaviour . |
| 26 | During the week that this correspondence was taking place , tenders for the Foreign Office were received from thirteen of the fifteen builders and , as arranged , they were displayed alongside Scott 's drawings . |
| 27 | The bulge was taking place about midway in the plaster wall . |
| 28 | The dull grey plaster was now completely alive with the shadows and the crawling light , and that wall had somehow become like grey leather or rubber at its centre , where the bulge was taking place . |
| 29 | Unbeknown to the readers , a war was taking place behind the scenes of NME , the so-called ‘ hip-hop wars ’ . |
| 30 | Some boiler restoration was taking place but there was no doubt that Ingrow West was run down and a problem to the KWVR . |