Example sentences of "[verb] be take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 2 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 3 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 4 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 5 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 6 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 7 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 8 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 9 | In Ulster the application of the theory has been taken a stage further and much effort has been spent , in addition , on ways to discredit and alienate non-terrorist opponents of the government from their host populations . |
| 10 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 11 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 12 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 13 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell you what though , mate , ’ and he was overtaken by another surge of enthusiasm , ‘ if you 're interested , what you could do is take a trip to Explorers Inn in the Tambopata Reserve , see the rainforest there … ’ |
| 15 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 16 | The decision to sell was taken a year before the deal was done and the company looked at 11 different suitors before picking Shandwick . |
| 17 | The best thing she could do was take a shower , get dressed and go out for some fresh air . |
| 18 | In the descriptive sense all that is needed is to take a series array of Voigt-Kelvin models or a parallel array of Maxwell models , writing for the behaviour of the latter under a constant strain for the former under creep conditions . |
| 19 | Most of us have possessions we want , or have to go on using , so the best thing to do is to take a very positive attitude and use them as jumping-off points . |
| 20 | All you have to do is take a stroll down the high street . |
| 21 | The other thing I 've got to do is take a photograph . |
| 22 | Which means that if Gillian and Denise have any problems with the part all they 'll have to do is take a cue from Tara , for she is a seasoned performer who starred in Fortwilliam Musical Society 's production of the musical . |
| 23 | ‘ All we had to do was take a basketful of poison-tipped bamboos into the mountains and stake them diagonally into the ground , right across the width of the valley . |
| 24 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 25 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 26 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 27 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 28 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 29 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 30 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |