Example sentences of "taking [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also done a publisher 's version of reverse engineering with Reed International Plc 's Cahners Publishing subsidiary , that will see Systems Integration Business folded and Reed taking on Digital News and blending it with its own Digital Review . |
| 2 | Its Market is unquestionably one of the best in Wales with designated market days being Wednesdays and Saturdays , but Fridays are taking on increasing importance . |
| 3 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |
| 4 | The organization is infectious ; many people have joined intending to make a small , easily-managed commitment and ended up doing three or four shifts a week and taking on extra work until sometimes their whole life becomes bound up in the organization . |
| 5 | Observers suggested that Azerbaijan 's military action was taking on renewed force following the victory of nationalist leader Abulfez Elchibey in presidential elections [ see p. 38976 ] . |
| 6 | She also enjoyed taking on occasional press and public relations assignments , and brings that experience to her present work . |
| 7 | Infolink , the UK 's leading credit information organisation , said consumers in most regions remain prudent in taking on new credit commitments . |
| 8 | Our travellers also noticed that the highly profitable Japanese office automation lines , sold in the home market and historically proprietary , are now taking on new Unix guises . |
| 9 | The position was rectified only slowly , the USA taking on first part and then , by the end of 1947 , the whole of the burden . |
| 10 | However various kinds of feminists might wish it otherwise , women play a mix of roles in present-day British society : they are wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers , and they somehow juggle all these roles together , largely by taking on part-time work which , as Land points out , is seriously marginalised when it comes to occupational benefits . |
| 11 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 12 | Read this proliferating , surging , skipping , mocking , smiling , looping torrent — what an enterprise it is — a man taking on human language . |
| 13 | The message of The First of the Few ( 1942 , Spitfire in the US ) , a biopic of the life of R. J. Mitchell , is that the Spitfire was made possible by one man taking on short-sighted business executives and parsimonious government authorities . |
| 14 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 15 | From 1964 onwards many mergers were actively encouraged by a Labour government seeking to reorganize British industry into large modern units capable of taking on foreign competition . |
| 16 | The role of ‘ Shipping Manager ’ is taking on unprecedented importance in the headquarter buildings of major manufacturers . |
| 17 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 18 | He had n't thought about himself , but with Tom taking on another farm , a farm that would one day be his own responsibility , it was hardly likely he would have time to take care of Seb too . |
| 19 | Oxford had a lot to do if they were to stand any chance of taking on Italian opposition . |
| 20 | It is a place of confluence , quite noisily so I imagine in winter or during the melting season , for rivers splash down into Arreau from east , west and south , at least four of them , with the Neste d'Aure here taking on more water for the journey north . |
| 21 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 22 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 23 | ECONOMIC indicators threw a rosy tint on the prospects for recovery today with polls showing businessmen more confident and consumers taking on more credit , while a leading pundit predicts a further 1pc interest rate cut this year . |
| 24 | There are 2 million fewer people employed now in our production industries than 25 years ago , and in its present form industry could probably produce more , with incentives and organisation , without taking on more labour . |
| 25 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 26 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |
| 27 | ‘ We would n't dream of taking on chartered accountant students , ’ says Clive Jones , a sole practitioner from Rugby . |
| 28 | Then , as the young composer experiments at his consoles and keyboards , taking on some meat , becoming stronger , deeper . |
| 29 | The deal was made possible by some countries , notably Germany , Denmark and the Netherlands , taking on larger carbon cuts than others . |
| 30 | I suppose it 's really proof of what er the approach that North Yorkshire County Council is taking on this issue because nothing is is as simple a as it seems . |