Example sentences of "[pers pn] is take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 2 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 3 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 4 | It is taking a short cut to the consumer society that other East Europeans can not take , by collapsing into West Germany 's arms . |
| 5 | It is taking a particular interest in proposals in Britain , such as a pilot road-charging scheme in Cambridge which could be introduced in 1994 , a similar but smaller scheme underway in the London Borough of Richmond , and a highway-pricing plan for Edinburgh . |
| 6 | I know that it is taking a full part in the exercise being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise . |
| 7 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 8 | Although he is taking a positive attitude , it is clear that George 's self-image has been shaken . |
| 9 | erm ba basically i i I do n't think it 's that bad and I mean obviously he , he 's making the picture , I would say he 's making the picture out to be f far worse than it actually is because he , he is taking an extreme sort of left point of view so to speak . |
| 10 | To import them is to take a huge risk . |