Example sentences of "[noun pl] was take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The continued belief in the ‘ untainted Führer ’ alongside the castigations of Party corruption blinded people now as earlier to the fateful path of destruction along which the institutionalized undermining of constitutional and legal norms in the ‘ Hitler State ’ and the fanatical pursuit of the Führer 's ‘ selfless ’ goals was taking Germany .
2 One of our diversions was to take coffee after supper in the station buffet .
3 On March 9 mujaheddin sources in Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , acknowledged that government forces had retaken the Bagram air base , but claimed that " renewed " fighting between the rebels and government troops was taking place in the northern provinces of Balkh and Konduz .
4 One of the frequent mass meetings attended by workers was taking place .
5 A student at one of our universities was taking part in one of those unproductive confrontations between students and senior members of the university .
6 Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place .
7 A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have .
8 She had entered the world in the January of what would prove to be a notorious year down in Stepney : a series of brutal murders was to take place on Ratcliff Highway , a major road which ran to the south of Well Close Square and right past St George 's church itself .
9 He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life .
10 Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place .
11 A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday .
12 When the claimant was a relative or friend , the first reaction after the hugs and kisses was to take hold of the label round the child 's neck , tear it off and throw it to the ground .
13 Several people voiced the suspicion that a frantic battle of the sound systems was taking place as companies vied to attract more customers .
14 At the same time a revolution in mental attitudes was taking place : like Wordsworth , Coleridge was disillusioned by Napoleon 's conquests .
15 One of his final acts was to take Britain 's Nigel Mansell from Williams .
16 So for both Claybury and Friern a considered process of local planning within the respective area health authorities was taking place in the late 1970s .
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