Example sentences of "is taking the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might be dying with tonsillitis and every f—er is taking the piss out of yer and running around and shouting in the room . ’ |
| 2 | Marcella is taking the piss . |
| 3 | Which is taking the piss , really , is n't it . |
| 4 | FoE is taking the government to court over the delays in the clean-up programme . |
| 5 | The buyer will appreciate the fact that the salesperson is taking the problem seriously and the salesperson will gain through having a clear and full understanding of what the problem really is . |
| 6 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 7 | ‘ The CBI is firmly committed to equal opportunities in the workplace and is taking the message to the smaller firms , where the majority of new jobs will be created , ’ added Mr Davies . |
| 8 | Perhaps expansion is taking the company into areas for which it has no expertise . |
| 9 | If anyone is taking the course for this Pat Palmer would be very interested to know ( particularly for handicapped classes ) . |
| 10 | If anyone is taking the course for this Pat Palmer would be very interested to know ( particularly for handicapped classes ) . |
| 11 | It is a sure sign he is taking the issue extremely seriously . |
| 12 | A nasty suspicion comes to me that he is taking the question seriously . |
| 13 | Ms Eagle added : ‘ Only the Labour Party is taking the question of unemployment seriously and working to develop policies that will ease the present situation . ’ |
| 14 | Firstly , er , I could assure the committee that the working party on provision of secondary and primary places which is published by the education committee , is taking the auditor 's report very seriously , and has been through it in detail , and has er , drawn up a programme of , of analysis , erm , over the next few months , very much taking into account the district auditor 's comments . |
| 15 | The prime minister is taking the blame for the pain of trying to cure the economy . |
| 16 | John is taking the blame . ’ |
| 17 | SPRINGFIELDS design engineer Gordon Lund is taking the love of his life for a weekend in Paris … with his wife 's blessing ! |
| 18 | In the north and east , where the war with Tamil Tiger separatists continues , it is the army , rather than the government , that is taking the decisions . |
| 19 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 20 | As the first post-merger MIPS product out , MIPS is taking the opportunity presented by the announcement to boast that the MIPS acquisition cost Silicon Graphics Inc no dilution of earnings . |
| 21 | Intel stresses that there are no problems with the P5 and that it is taking the opportunity of strong demand for the 80486 family to spend longer testing the highly complex new chip in the hope of avoiding the bugs that plagued the 80486 in its early days . |
| 22 | ‘ This is taking the idea one step further , ’ Raff said . |
| 23 | At least one research team in the US is taking the idea seriously . |
| 24 | The Government is taking the money , and it is not paying it back to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 25 | Such is the demand that the club is taking the road up to Southport for regular Monday night sessions at the Palm Court . |
| 26 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 27 | She 's undergone vital surgery to remove the cancer and now , in addition , is taking the drug , Tamoxifen , which , according to the new research , can reduce the risk of death by a quarter . |
| 28 | Most operators see this as an accounting nicety , but it would seem that BT is taking the directive much further , using it as the basis for building its business strategy for the next millennium . |
| 29 | But there still appears to be a need to create a family environment and increasingly , the dog is taking the place of the child . |
| 30 | Still , Spouse is taking the children to Kirkwhinnie for Hogmanay where they can wallow in Aunt Elspeth 's Home Made everything whilst I … but do not permit myself to imagine naughty idyll at Porritt Gardens . |