Example sentences of "[adv] taking the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm not taking the bloody drop for them . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The second was announced at 2.17pm , temporarily taking the total rise for the day to five per cent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I remind the House that Britain is now taking the environmental lead in Europe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the price you paid seems to be fair enough — even taking the bad news into account . |
| 15 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 16 | She could remember someone or something smashing the back of her head , and then taking the high dive into ice-cream country . |
| 17 | LIMERIDGE , repeated his win of last year when taking the Open Race at the Mid-Antrim Hunt Point-to-Point at Ballymena yesterday . |
| 18 | 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 . |