Example sentences of "[adv] taking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the First Test came the tour selectors , with Stewart naturally taking the dominant role , decided that Mains was suspect because he did not have the speed to cover the hard South African grounds when the ball was loose . |
| 2 | So taking the overall position of Scripture on this matter , it is clear there is no Biblical set of rules and regulations for divorce and remarriage as such . |
| 3 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 4 | That such an attack could have been successfully executed — apparently taking the allied forces by surprise — was in itself an impressive achievement given the extent of allied air superiority . |
| 5 | I worked a lot in one which I used to call D4 — basically taking the second string down to A and then sometimes taking the third string down to F sharp — open D. But sometimes keeping the third string tuned to G. I also used to tune to D minor sometimes and take the F sharp down to F , but sometimes keeping the E at the top so you 'd have a ninth . ’ |
| 6 | Biograph , it seemed , was giving the public a new social cinema and as the years went by it seemed that D. W. Griffith in particular was just taking the main problems of American society as his subject-matter . |
| 7 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 8 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 9 | Only women who are not breastfeeding and not taking the contraceptive pill are eligible . |
| 10 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 11 | I 'm not taking the bloody drop for them . ’ |
| 12 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 13 | While other dictionary publishers are not taking the extreme stance taken by COBUILD , corpora are being recognised as increasingly useful tools for creating up-to-date dictionaries that accurately reflect the language . |
| 14 | These include power to strike out an application because the applicant is not taking the proper steps to further the claim , or because it is ‘ scandalous , frivolous or vexatious ’ . |
| 15 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 16 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the government is still taking the cheap option , not the best . |
| 18 | A match with the newly-crowned WBC champion would silence the critics who accuse him of forever taking the soft option . |
| 19 | But if you 're an individual or small business buyer , then you 'll probably be better off taking the following steps to make sure purchasing your computer is a painless as possible . |
| 20 | The second was announced at 2.17pm , temporarily taking the total rise for the day to five per cent . |
| 21 | The signal sequence in preprogastrin — that is , residues 1–21 , is sufficient to ensure sequestration into the cisternal space of the endoplasmic reticulum so that the peptides we have measured are likely to be localised to the secretory pathway , most probably taking the constitutive route to the exterior . |
| 22 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 23 | Well that 's really taking the whole thing seriously . |
| 24 | I remind the House that Britain is now taking the environmental lead in Europe . |
| 25 | Harry was no longer looking at him , but felt sure he had leaned forward across his desk , as if their discussion were only now taking the desired direction . |
| 26 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 27 | Today , however , she was n't taking the familiar route up to the endocrine ward , with the familiar reluctant realisation that Deana Davenport would probably be on her shift . |
| 28 | When this tour was announced I wondered why Catherine Wheel were n't taking the top spot on this bill considering their higher media profile . |
| 29 | After witnessing the gig I 'm definitely wondering why whey were n't taking the top spot . |
| 30 | And the price you paid seems to be fair enough — even taking the bad news into account . |