Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] taking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | reasons for taking the general SVQ |
| 2 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 3 | Such women suffered from a lack of formally structured education and from inhibitions about taking the authoritative initiative involved in composing written texts . |
| 4 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 5 | The horrific experience of taking the wrong baby home from hospital has forged strong bonds between Tony and Maureen Bursey and Marie Coyle and her boyfriend Peter Wadsley . |
| 6 | ROBERT ALNER continued his relentless progress towards taking The Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship at Portman on Saturday when he rode three winners and now leads Philip Scholfield — who was restricted to one success at the Dartmoor — by 22 to 13 . |
| 7 | Candidates with the revised HNC will thus be able to progress to the new HND on taking the necessary number of extra units . |
| 8 | He plans a strong youth policy as the basis for taking the re-born club into the Welsh pyramid soccer system . |
| 9 | Collette Margaret McCarthy , 21 , a receptionist , never recovered consciousness and , despite a liver transplant , died on 16 August , 16 days after taking the amphetamine-based hallucinogen , Southwark Coroner 's Court in south London was told . |
| 10 | The serious business of taking the tough decisions necessary to agree on a budget that both puts the deficit on a downward path and meets the government 's priorities has virtually disappeared . |
| 11 | He was on the point of taking the key fortress of Valencia in the same year , when he fell sick and died within a matter of weeks . |
| 12 | One danger of taking the downward spiral of self-imposed isolation is agoraphobia , the fear of being away from the security of the home . |
| 13 | As a consequence of taking the prescribed drug thalidomide , something like 8,000 pregnant mothers in the United States , Germany , Japan , Britain , Ireland , Sweden , Australia , Canada , Brazil , Italy , and Spain gave birth to monstrously deformed babies . |
| 14 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 15 | If reforming Russia is now the world 's biggest challenge , then comfort can be taken in this new Russian knack of taking the right road when choices have to be made . |
| 16 | My second disaster of the trip happened in the very minute of taking the camper van onto the road . |
| 17 | Cumani has a chance of taking the big sprint on the Knavesmire with Khaydara , but she has not run since June and will be hard pressed to hold Runun ( 3.45 ) , who was the convincing winner of a valuable Ascot handicap on his last outing . |
| 18 | So all in all , since most of the passage is told from Pemberton 's point of view , we are led in the absence of contrary evidence into taking the whole passage in that light . |
| 19 | Another free day before taking the overnight train to Cairo . |
| 20 | Having complained on several occasions of the Church 's reticence over taking the moral lead , on this occasion her plea was successful . |
| 21 | I studied at the Scuole Medie in the Istituto Melloni , which would enable me , after four years , to choose either a classical or a scientific education by taking the appropriate examination . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Arrangements for taking the SEFIC Examination are made on arrival at the school . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 27 | He sees few signs of complacency but a greater appreciation of hazards and a commitment to taking the right precautions , which he considers are the surest way of accelerating progress towards a safer future . |
| 28 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 29 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 30 | Iulian Vlad , 59 , the head of the now disbanded Securitate secret police and Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior under the regime of President Ceausescu until Dec. 22 , 1989 , on charges of taking the dissident Dumitru Mazilu into custody illegally on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |