Example sentences of "was take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As Diana 's life was taking a new direction , her sister Sarah was in crisis . |
| 2 | Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers . |
| 3 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 4 | Food was taking a poor second on my diet sheet this evening . |
| 5 | On Jan. 18 Justice Minister H. J. " Kobie " Coetsee announced that the government was taking a comprehensive approach in a review of the position of restricted and banned organizations . |
| 6 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 7 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 8 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 9 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 10 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 11 | Someone was taking a frightful chance I felt ; these games were always held on a Sunday and the English community in Baghdad came out to the camp as several matches were played in the afternoon . |
| 12 | The knitting correspondent was taking a well-earned break from the strenuous world of woollens , courtesy of her travel editor . |
| 13 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 14 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |
| 15 | ‘ In this decree Pope Pius was taking a good swipe at those who would bring the church up to date , the modernists as they call themselves . |
| 16 | Mr Anderson had also claimed to investigating officers that the woman told him she had had three Aids tests and was taking a contraceptive pill . |
| 17 | She was taking a contraceptive pill and denied misusing drugs . |
| 18 | At the end of the month New Scientist was taking a sober view of the clinical value of interferon , once thought a possible panacea against viruses . |
| 19 | But he was taking a cautious line , mindful of the child behind him . |
| 20 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 21 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 22 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 23 | Jannie was taking a benevolent interest , too , inviting not Bob but Tessa out to look at houses she had found for them in s.w.23 . |
| 24 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 25 | In the lounge Lord Beddington was taking a short rest after the exigencies of luncheon . |
| 26 | Girl thief snatches bag from pensioner A 62-year-old woman had her bag snatched by a girl thief in Stockton while she was taking a short cut between Hartington Road and Lawson Walk . |
| 27 | Suddenly Quiggers was on his feet and , before anyone could say anything , he was taking a brisk run-up at the Pike bottom . |
| 28 | Jim Thomas , chief Ford negotiator for the MSF , said he was ‘ bemused ’ that Ford was taking a tough line after achieving most of the 2,200 job losses wanted . |
| 29 | Linguistics in the US at this time was taking a different direction . |
| 30 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |