Example sentences of "is take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents like to see the headteacher 's initials on their child 's reading card , they appreciate that the head is taking a personal interest in their child 's progress and keeping a general eye on activities in classrooms . |
| 2 | Claiming he will have this design ready by the autumn , MacDonald is taking a personal interest in product design , just as he did at AC Scotland . |
| 3 | For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise . |
| 4 | Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies . |
| 5 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 6 | This is taking a long time . |
| 7 | This is taking a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 10 | Steve Bull is taking a two-day break from training . |
| 11 | Steve Jobs says his NeXT Computer Inc is taking a major risk in developing NeXTStep 3.0 for 80486-based personal computers , but reckons that it is the only serious competition for Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 12 | CITIZENS Financial Group is taking a major step towards its goal of doubling in size within a 100-mile radius of its Providence , Rhode Island headquarters . |
| 13 | Anyone seeking political asylum is taking a major step . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the Vatican is doing a fine job , ’ Mr Fitzwater told reporters in Texas , where President Bush is taking a quail-hunting holiday . |
| 15 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 16 | This approach to risk measurement , in addition , is particularly important if the credit manager is taking a strategic approach to risk management which requires as its initial stage a formal system for risk categorisation of customers . |
| 17 | HOLLYWOOD stunner Darryl Hannah is taking a year-long break from movies — to go back to school . |
| 18 | But times have changed , and with several successful campaigns behind it ( goats have been eradicated from five islands ) Galapagos conservation is taking a new direction . |
| 19 | Bill Coleman , vice president of systems software at SunSoft Inc , is taking a delayed leave of absence and is replaced by his right-hand woman , Helen Bradley . |
| 20 | Mr Poole says the company is taking a robust approach to chopping back unproductive non-core businesses and controlling its cash well . |
| 21 | Having spent large amounts of money on exploration and drilling , oil companies are quite keen to recoup their investment , even if the government is taking a big slice off the top . |
| 22 | SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president . |
| 23 | One 's sympathies are with the pragmatists , but it has to be admitted that if the markets do get the impression that the Chancellor is taking a soft line on inflation to promote growth , then the pound could come under pressure , and the next move in interest rates could then be up not down . |
| 24 | New Line , the most interesting independent , is taking a different tack . |
| 25 | New research is taking a different tack . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 28 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 29 | I know that it is taking a full part in the exercise being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise . |
| 30 | It is taking a short cut to the consumer society that other East Europeans can not take , by collapsing into West Germany 's arms . |