Example sentences of "have been taking [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 2 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 3 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 4 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 5 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 6 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 7 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 8 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 9 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 10 | Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 11 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 12 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 13 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 14 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 15 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 16 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 17 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 18 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 19 | Well actually what I 've been I 've been taking two before I go to bed at night . |
| 20 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 21 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 24 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 25 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 26 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 27 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 28 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |