Example sentences of "taking the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Lawson did , however , play his part in taking the Prime Minister to that peak of economic success from which the poll tax plan was launched .
2 They were all minors and Joseph was taking the normal step to protect their interests , for if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband .
3 Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter .
4 The second was announced at 2.17pm , temporarily taking the total rise for the day to five per cent .
5 As we saw in the previous chapter on Leadership , the key to success in leadership is to obtain the best ‘ mix ’ of attention to task and attention to people , taking the total situation into account .
6 They said two more people had been arrested yesterday , taking the total number of arrests in the case to 11. — Reuter and AP
7 Compared with that , is taking the final step with me so scary ?
8 For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy .
9 It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system .
10 After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull .
11 If he does , why does he reject the sovereignty of the British people in taking the final decision on the matter in a post-legislative referendum ?
12 The stock of inward portfolio investment and the cumulated inflow ( taking the end-1975 stock as a benchmark ) are shown in Fig. 3 .
13 Only women who are not breastfeeding and not taking the contraceptive pill are eligible .
14 Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public .
15 Taking the EG-1 first , the HFS bridge humbucker delivers a warm , fat sound reminiscent of a vintage PAF , and while the guitar does n't have the image of a rocker the bridge pickup is almost arrogant in the way it handles an amp at full tilt .
16 One danger of taking the downward spiral of self-imposed isolation is agoraphobia , the fear of being away from the security of the home .
17 She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug .
18 There they transferred to the Métro , taking the rubber-wheeled underground train on the Neuilly line to the west of the city .
19 Normalisation is done by taking the average rate of growth exhibited by the extra-area trading balances .
20 Taking the current level of borrowings and forecasting future receipts of cash in and payments of cash out by salaries , bought ledger payments , tax payments and so on .
21 But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August .
22 If you think that Chronic Urethritis may be a problem , you can help yourself by taking the following measures : drinking a glass of water before you have intercourse , so that you fill your bladder ; making sure that you use a vaginal lubricant and relax as much as possible ; and the by remembering to empty your bladder soon after intercourse .
23 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 .
24 Taking the Labour Examination ?
25 As we have seen , in taking the philosophical approach which he does , it is not clear precisely how , having established the existence of a sovereign office of legislature , Oakeshott seeks to establish the rule of law qualification on the exercise of this power .
26 She said that the public were becoming agitated because the council did not appear to be taking the toughest line possible .
27 The simplest and earliest of these is due to Alfrey and consists of taking the spectral function as the negative slope of the relaxation curve in a static ( stress relaxation or creep ) experiment ( Figure 3.5 ) .
28 Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French .
29 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 .
30 So it 's erm I suppose part of the humour lies in taking the metaphorical to the literal is n't it .
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