Example sentences of "[adv] taking the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only women who are not breastfeeding and not taking the contraceptive pill are eligible . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | I 'm not taking the bloody drop for them . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the government is still taking the cheap option , not the best . |
| 14 | A match with the newly-crowned WBC champion would silence the critics who accuse him of forever taking the soft option . |
| 15 | The second was announced at 2.17pm , temporarily taking the total rise for the day to five per cent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well that 's really taking the whole thing seriously . |
| 19 | I remind the House that Britain is now taking the environmental lead in Europe . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After witnessing the gig I 'm definitely wondering why whey were n't taking the top spot . |
| 24 | And the price you paid seems to be fair enough — even taking the bad news into account . |
| 25 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 26 | She could remember someone or something smashing the back of her head , and then taking the high dive into ice-cream country . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | LIMERIDGE , repeated his win of last year when taking the Open Race at the Mid-Antrim Hunt Point-to-Point at Ballymena yesterday . |
| 29 | Away goes Lawrence , shirt soaked with sweat , he bowls to who plays well forward taking the bottom hand off the bat and the ball rolls up to Lawrence who does n't field it , it 's Hugh Morris running from short leg , who then hands the ball to Philip DeFreitas , gives it a good shine on his right thigh . |
| 30 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |