Example sentences of "[noun sg] taking [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 2 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 3 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 4 | An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims . |
| 5 | Pauline was crowned Festival Queen taking over the honour from Margi Clarke , who held the position last year amid singers , stiltwalkers and members of the British Music Hall Company . |
| 6 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 7 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 8 | For the Australian army was among the first , if not the first , Allied service taking up the commando idea , even though they already had nearly four divisions overseas . |
| 9 | Lucy Lane is at the local nick taking over the paper work . |
| 10 | The first is that whether we have in mind the student taking on the demands of the rational life , or the individual discipline considered as a rational endeavour , or an institution of higher education : for each of them rationality is neither static nor a definite end-point . |
| 11 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
| 12 | For example taking out the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track , taking out the the M I D S , the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids , to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability . |
| 13 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
| 14 | Their skin taking on the pallor of death , is the same colour as the linen sheets . |
| 15 | Such a decision would , of course , require the acceptance of the State taking on the responsibility ( and its cost ) . |
| 16 | Any firm taking over the craft would need similar processing capacity . |
| 17 | The daylight faded almost imperceptibly into night , electricity taking over the sun 's job smoothly . |
| 18 | In the review of the Structure Plan the County wanted to redesignate this for warehousing and transport services and had some preliminary negotiations with a large tyre and exhaust fitting company with a view to that company taking over the development . |
| 19 | On 1 September 1939 , the Minister of Transport made an order taking over the control of the railways . |
| 20 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 21 | Within a year , Pinchbeck was on his travels again , this time taking on the role of manager Exploitation with the Gulf of Mexico business unit in Houston , planning new deep water developments and reservoir management . |
| 22 | She was ‘ called-up ’ again by the SAAF in February 1971 , this time taking on the serial 6888 . |
| 23 | But that 's what I , all these gadgets , when you have these gadgets Marg it 's more fuss taking out the gadget and washing |
| 24 | The latter method may be preferred where , for cosmetic reasons , the parties wish to present the transaction as a " true " merger rather than one party taking over the other ; however , it is more unwieldy and expensive and is not often used where there is a risk of a competitive bid being made for either company . |