Example sentences of "taking [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 10 | Then , as the young composer experiments at his consoles and keyboards , taking on some meat , becoming stronger , deeper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 13 | You know , taking on this part . |
| 14 | Is there anyone in the area who might consider joining us and taking on this position ? ’ |
| 15 | Beside this , the very persistence of the term is itself worthy of interest and on academic , moral and political grounds any resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds the value of the concept of the inner city must surely start by taking on this vocabulary for what it is . |
| 16 | We should consider whether taking on this role , in a context of inadequate overall expenditure , might not increase our administrative workload and the level of stress from our clinical work and adversely affect our relationships with our patients , our staff , and each other . |
| 17 | Konrad Kolsek , commander of the Fifth Army district , informed Peterle that his command had been " charged with the task of taking over all border crossings and protecting the state borders of the SFRY " . |
| 18 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 19 | Several weeks before reunification , Bundeswehr units started taking over former NVA bases and re-training NVA soldiers , before quietly slipping into West Berlin , from where they had previously been banned by the 1969 Four Power agreement . |
| 20 | This dog here 's taking over this house ! |
| 21 | Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain . |
| 22 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 23 | A reverse takeover offer is , at first sight , curious , because it involves one company taking over another company with much larger resources . |
| 24 | Where the firm is taking over another practice , accepting its outstanding liabilities and receiving payments for work in progress at the date of the takeover , these matters should be spelled out , particularly where the partners of the acquired practice or some of them join the new firm . |
| 25 | At the moment there is n't even a charging regulations came in the schools immediately cut back because it was a very definite barrier that was put up to prevent schools that prevented schools from from taking up that sort of er offer that they had done in the past and it 's a major problem . |
| 26 | Management , in contrast , must be a continuing process — always ensuring that the best use is made of time , human resource and money , taking up some slack , reinforcing successful practices , reviewing the state of staff development and offering encouragement : " Successful implementation needs continual support . |
| 27 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 28 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 29 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 30 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |