Example sentences of "[noun pl] taking [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individually now and in no order , depending on how swiftly crews could reload , prime and fire , the Scots gunners worked their pieces , aiming lower , those two leading vessels taking terrible punishment . |
| 2 | There are four new cassette decks , two of them twin-transport units taking two cassettes ( KX- W262 at £199.95 and KX-W362 at £249.95 ) and two conventional using two-motor transports with Dolby B , C and Hx Pro and optional remote control ( KX-260 at £149.95 and KX-360 at £179.95 ) . |
| 3 | In order words the LTE was to balance its books taking one year with the next . |
| 4 | Everything depends on the economy 's continuing to grow out of the recession , and exporters taking full advantage of a competitive exchange rate and finding markets in the face of a recession throughout Europe . |
| 5 | In the final section some problems concerning decisions about passing and failing candidates taking criterion-referenced tests are discussed . |
| 6 | Even is these ‘ broadening ’ elements are not a formal part of an SVQ programme , candidates taking these modules will have them credited alongside the occupational SVQ units and modules on their Records of Education and Training . |
| 7 | Clients taking alternative holiday insurance should refer to their own policy . |
| 8 | The remaining Assembly seats went to the Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians ( eight ) , independents ( eight ) , the Democratic Party ( seven ) , the Party of Democratic Action ( three ) , the Alliance of Reform Forces of Vojvodina ( two ) , the Party of Serbian Peasants ' Union ( two ) , and to seven other parties taking one seat each . |
| 9 | President Clinton himself has started running hares with his campaign promises to soak foreign companies taking unfair advantage of the US market and his more recent claims that European governments are subsidising the Airbus project and destroying jobs at Boeing . |
| 10 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
| 11 | One of the most important areas of legal dispute in RENFE has been the calculation of overtime earnings , with matters taking several years to progress through the courts . |
| 12 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 13 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 14 | From Glamis , her home for the moment , Groa moved about her concerns with the farm people and tried to ignore the rumble of wagons taking felled timber to the palisade , or men with pickaxes and shovels on their way to Dunsinane , where the old ring-fort below the watch-station had received new stone-and-earth walls , and shelters for folk as well as animals . |
| 15 | Though Mark James is not your obvious candidate to flourish in a pro-am format , with rounds taking 5½ hours , yesterday 's sunshine stretched his tolerance level . |
| 16 | Some of the more important suggestions for change include new committee structures to allow qualified civilian staff to have information and knowledge to question military assumptions ; new congressional committees to review the need for new weapons systems ; laws to force people to disclose any bureaucratic and financial interests when dealing with the military and to stop Pentagon officials taking top jobs with defence contractors : and , budgeting systems which would ask for every existing military programme to be fundamentally reappraised every year ( zero-based budgeting ) . |
| 17 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 18 | President Clinton also inherited from the Bush administration a reluctance to approve foreign airlines taking controlling stakes in US airlines , and a hostile US attitude to EC farm subsidies which France , Spain and Belgium , in particular , are determined not to surrender . |
| 19 | Boats taking occasional thornback ray , but cod scarce . |
| 20 | He then spent 18 years taking still shots for posters until Saatchi and Saatchi 's asked him to direct a small commercial . |
| 21 | Furthermore , landlords and managing agents were said to use a range of ‘ sharp practices ’ to circumvent the law or to stop or reduce the likelihood of tenants taking legal action . |
| 22 | In the conduct of business , most eyes are on a mooted change in the normal procedure for law-making , to encourage MPs to sit in select committees taking public evidence on bills before they discuss their details . |
| 23 | Avon and Somerset Police , concerned by the growing number of officers taking sick leave due to back trouble , discovered in the survey that 15 per cent of the ricked backs were caused or aggravated by sitting in police vans and personnel carriers . |
| 24 | One of the leading writers taking this approach is Hartmann . |
| 25 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 26 | Finally , we recommend Protein Purification : Principles and Practice for undergraduates taking advanced protein chemistry courses . |
| 27 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 28 | The concentrations of 5ASA and N-acetyl-5ASA are similar to those found in the rectal lumen in patients taking therapeutic doses of 5ASA-containing compounds . |
| 29 | Prednisolone was studied at 10 - 5 M , which is within the plasma concentration ragne found in patients taking therapeutic doses of this drug . |
| 30 | This inhibition occurs at concentrations of 5ASA and N-acetyl 5ASA found in the rectal lumen of patients taking therapeutic doses of 5ASA containing compounds and is of the same magnitude as the reduction in IFN γ induced HLA-DR expression . |