Example sentences of "[noun sg] was take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar sea change in corporate thinking was to take place , much later , in Britain . |
| 2 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 3 | A British journalist was taken prisoner in the train ambush but was released after five days . |
| 4 | He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place . |
| 5 | Killion stood and let the cold air chill him , as a kind of left-handed penance for not being at the Front where all that pounding and pulverizing of flesh and bone and blood with steel and explosive was taking place . |
| 6 | A triangular pond was taking shape and trees , shrubs , seats and market barrow style stalls are planned for the aisles . |
| 7 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 8 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 9 | She was still unsure on the Friday night when she sat beside Luke at a table shared with Giles and Ursula Estwick and a famous local actress married to a slightly less famous politician , in one of Taipei 's luxury hotels , the massive second-floor chamber in which the televised awards ceremony was taking place officially and quaintly designated the Ballroom . |
| 10 | When the oath of loyalty to Alexander II was administered in Moscow on 19 February 1855 , a bell fell through three floors of a Kremlin church where the ceremony was taking place and prompted speculation on the part of the common people that the new tsar would be dogged by misfortune . |
| 11 | There was no nationwide obligation imposed on organisers to warn the police in advance that such a march was to take place . |
| 12 | These proposals had come forward without any consultation with any health minister , and indeed without any of us knowing that such a study was taking place . |
| 13 | A day or two before the crime was to take place , the Apparition of Our Lady shone forth , changing bitterness to religious awe and causing the Ribbonmen publicly to repent . |
| 14 | Almost half the respondents said they experienced feelings of disapproval , sadness or disgust ; only 26 per cent had felt anger or resentment towards the white authorities or pleasure that rioting was taking place . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going to enjoy Tivoli as it deserves to be enjoyed , I think for tonight at least we should call a truce , ’ he suggested , apparently unaware of her intense reaction to his touch , as they walked past the Pantominteatret , where a performance of the traditional Italian pantomime was taking place on the open-air stage . |
| 16 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 17 | Indeed , most of the fighting was taking place there . |
| 18 | The oil spread to the plaintiff 's wharf where welding was taking place . |
| 19 | The text of the work had to be submitted to Vienna for approval and by 24 August it had still not arrived for Mozart to set ( the wedding was to take place in October ) . |
| 20 | The wedding was to take place as privately as possible at the dairy . |
| 21 | Again , it is a peculiarity of unfair dismissal law that an industrial tribunal does not have the power to consider the fairness of dismissal where at the time of dismissal the employer was conducting a lockout or the employee was taking part in a strike or other industrial action . |
| 22 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that the site of the former mill ponds — known as ‘ the cut ’ in Scorton had again been opened and that tipping was taking place there . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , while the statute was taking shape the nobility were able to reduce the quantity and quality of land in peasant hands and to extract limited amendments to the legislative proposals . |
| 24 | The Governor-General was taken prisoner , though the Lieutenant-Governor , Dr Van Mook , escaped to Australia . |
| 25 | It was in the Transport Workers , above all , that the main battle was taking place , with the Ford dispute leading to another threatened strike by British Oxygen workers , and finally a conclusive dispute amongst the drivers of long-distance lorries and oil tankers . |
| 26 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 27 | At least the morning plan was taking shape . |
| 28 | I believed the military had notified pilots that a military exercise was taking place so the pilopts were on general alert . |
| 29 | But , speaking on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme , he described as ‘ misleading ’ a report in The Guardian this morning that correspondence on this issue was taking place between the Treasury and the Health Department . |
| 30 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |