Example sentences of "taking [adv prt] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , are committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the 600–700 construction vacancies . |
| 2 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , is committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the construction work . |
| 3 | There is temptation to prove herself , by handling conflicting , stressful elements , by taking on too much , but at this stage the wisdom of discrimination usually shows itself . |
| 4 | I 'm worried that you 're taking on too much . ’ |
| 5 | We looked for too little back-up , naively taking on too much , like driving the women to and from the centre . |
| 6 | The danger of course , lies in taking on too much . |
| 7 | The opportunities for road racing in Britain are so frequent that you can be constantly in danger of taking on too many . |
| 8 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 9 | The same team shows that WPP , while crippling itself by debt , threw away its crutches by taking on so many small earn-outs ( over 30 ) that it risks , on this count alone , a 150% increase in share capital — with awful implications for dividends . |
| 10 | Taking in so many events , Official and Confidential involved Summers in a huge amount of research . |
| 11 | The enclosure stretched from Little Beck to Whitby Harbour , taking in as much land as possible . |
| 12 | Taking in too much protein will result in you putting on weight , as it can be converted to fat . |
| 13 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 14 | The area of surgery has expanded at an incredible speed from virtually from nothing three years ago to taking over as much as fifty percent or even seventy five percent of general surgery . |
| 15 | The parish well-head , taking up practically all of the small village green of this remote settlement high on the chalk downs , drew water from one of the deepest wells in the country . |
| 16 | With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy . |
| 17 | There was a fourposter bed with tattered red hangings taking up nearly all of the floor space . |
| 18 | details are taking up too much of your time . |
| 19 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 20 | If you find that this is taking up too much of your valuable time , or causes disruption when your wages clerk is ill or on holiday — have a look at how Midland can help . |
| 21 | Some of these companies also specialise in making tapes for syndication to local radio and with a strong topical theme this kind of approach can achieve a good deal of coverage without taking up too much of an executive 's time . |
| 22 | By the third week , if a pupil from one school felt that a pupil from the other school was taking up too much space , or holding the microphone at the wrong angle , or not performing a task quickly enough , they would be told . |
| 23 | Fortunately at this point Daniel came in , humming , from Morning Prayer , taking up too much space , wishing everyone " Happy Christmas " in a clerical boom . |
| 24 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 25 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 26 | No ; I am taking up too much time already . |
| 27 | Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones said Gloucestershire had been underfunded compared to others , but he failed in his bid and earned a rebuke for taking up too much time . |
| 28 | Mr Cordial has been a member of the health authority since 1990 when he decided his previous duties with Yorkshire Regional Health Authority were taking up too much time travelling from his home in Barton . |
| 29 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 30 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |