Example sentences of "of taking [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Working Party emphasised the importance of good drafting in the documents originating pension schemes , and stressed the importance of taking legal advice on the conduct of the scheme throughout its life , as well as at its inception . |
| 2 | That 's where legal expenses insurance helps — it protects against the cost of taking legal action . |
| 3 | Labour councils , desperate to avoid the final sanction — a sale of goods in a debtor 's home — are now agonising at the prospect of taking legal action against their own supporters . |
| 4 | More important , the cost of legal action to seek redress had become so prohibitive that the consumer had little chance of taking legal action against suppliers . |
| 5 | But , as Robin Powell reports , some experts are wary of taking political correctness too far . |
| 6 | They also accuse Christians of pretending to be morally superior and of taking great delight in their virtue . |
| 7 | It was rumoured that as the monarch 's virility grew less reliable he developed a habit of taking substantial quantities of aphrodisiacs . |
| 8 | ( Even today , Australian aborigines who have lived for a generation in settlements have still to acquire the habit of taking regular meals . ) |
| 9 | To explain the importance of taking effective notes . |
| 10 | The slaughter houses are chary of taking freeze-branded animals . |
| 11 | A government official added : ‘ We are not in the business of taking moral decisions for other countries ’ . |
| 12 | For the Right-Ons , many of whom had committed the cardinal mistake of taking other people 's newspapers too seriously , it was inconceivable that this diet of trash should be allowed to succeed . |
| 13 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 14 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 15 | Generally speaking , however , the free market is not capable of taking good care of the environment . |
| 16 | Endometriosis was not linked to duration of taking oral contraceptives . |
| 17 | Total duration of taking oral contraceptives was not related to the risk of endometriosis ( table IV ) . |
| 18 | If , say , my left breast becomes enlarged , I do not have to contemplate whether it is a result of taking illegal substances . |
| 19 | Yoshihisa Tabuchi , the president of Nomura ( the world 's largest stockbroker ) , and Takuya Iwasaki , the head of Nikko , resigned their posts on June 24 after their companies had also been accused of lending money to the head of a major gangster syndicate known as Inagawa-Kai , and of taking illegal actions to boost the values of shares which he held . |
| 20 | Instead of taking decisive action , however , the cabinet 's reaction was at best ineffective and at worst irresponsible . |
| 21 | Section 3 on this |
| 22 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
| 23 | But if this be the case it is for Parliament , not for the judiciary , to decide whether any changes should be made to the law as stated in the Acts , and , if so , what are the precise limits that ought to be imposed upon the immunity from liability for torts committed in the course of taking industrial action . |
| 24 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the management of the Albacom factory in Dundee are taking advantage of the circumstances of mass unemployment by sacking more than 100 members of the work force for the crime of taking industrial action , within the terms of the Government 's employment laws ? |
| 25 | 1.2 Both categories of staff also voted in favour of taking industrial action in pursuance of a better deal . |
| 26 | I heartily agree with him , and I suspect that that is really an argument in favour of federalism in due course — I would not necessarily be too frightened of taking that course . |
| 27 | This course gives students the possibility of taking two languages together with a vocationally oriented study of aspects of modern Europe . |
| 28 | The habit of taking two days off proved popular in London . |
| 29 | You know where er that circle is where there 's the shops , well instead of taking I know , instead of taking one road I took another and I got completely lost ! |
| 30 | ‘ Obviously I would love to get back to where I was before the injury , but it 's very much a case of taking one game at a time . ’ |