Example sentences of "taking [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishing was very good with the group taking 75 ling to 18 lbs , 30 pollack to 11 lbs and numbers of coalfish to 8 lbs . |
| 2 | Gordon Brand , jun , and Ireland 's David Feherty , who were joint runners-up in Valencia last week , both failed to make the cut after taking 75 to finish on 148 , and the Turespana Masters champion , Andrew Oldcorn ( 74 ) went out on 150 . |
| 3 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 4 | Wild with their easy victory , the Orc army advanced quickly into the pass itself , taking little care to scout ahead or leave a rearguard to protect its line of march . |
| 5 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 6 | It became clear to Truman as the months passed that the Soviet government was taking little heed of these threats and that differences over the composition of the Polish and other East European governments , over the fate of Germany and a host of other issues , remained as wide as ever . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's taking little Jack Toop home , ’ said his aunt calmly . |
| 8 | He was smoking and talking simultaneously , taking little melodramatic puffs between phrases . |
| 9 | He walked fast , with his head down , taking little notice of where they were going . |
| 10 | This time the chasm yawned in front of her , and she knew that she might close her eyes for the moment , but she was already taking little steps towards the edge . |
| 11 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 12 | Kerry says neighbours have also suffered at the hands of thieves , but says that the police seem to be taking little interest . |
| 13 | Yet most exiled Palestinians instinctively reject the idea of taking Israeli citizenship in order to return . |
| 14 | He blindly pursued established policies and fought to preserve his heritage of power , making little attempt to formulate new policies , and often taking cruel measures to enforce those already in existence . |
| 15 | In the congressional elections the PRI won a total of 326 seats in the 500-member Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , taking 290 of the 300 seats directly contested ( the 200 remaining seats being assigned under a complex system of proportional representation designed to favour smaller parties . |
| 16 | Finally , we recommend Protein Purification : Principles and Practice for undergraduates taking advanced protein chemistry courses . |
| 17 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 18 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 19 | Hetton professional Dipak Sharma grabbed 7–43 as Langley Park were bowled out for 103 , Fred Eastaugh taking 3–30 . |
| 20 | I lurch around taking spastic angular steps , like a crane about to topple . |
| 21 | To explore Regency England in her company is much like taking Rural Rides with Cobbett a decade later , not least because they both detect in the details of domestic building and furnishing indications of much more comprehensive change . |
| 22 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
| 23 | All this proved most embarrassing for HMG as talks were in progress with a view to taking possible action against the pirates . |
| 24 | I would favour a very substantial increase in the proportion of students taking combined and joint subject degrees where Business Studies are an important element . |
| 25 | In fact , it is less of a risk for women taking combined HRT than those on none . |
| 26 | The fact that gendarmes have been introduced to an Oxford school is a measure of how seriously schools in Oxfordshire are taking European road safety week . |
| 27 | So Lindsay had two stallions to take home , and as two stallions are not likely to share the close proximity of a horse trailer without taking each other apart , and probably the horse trailer too , a crowd gathered to watch in expectation ! |
| 28 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 29 | Andrew undresses him slowly , taking each bit of clothing off slowly but then flinging them into a corner of the room ( 'so you wo n't find them in the morning' ) . |
| 30 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |