Example sentences of "[noun pl] taking [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicester fans taking every single vantage point they can around the ground . |
| 2 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 3 | It is partly the recession and partly companies taking a realistic look at how much they can afford . ’ |
| 4 | The main artery of rural life is being cut by intensive agricultural methods including use of pesticides and fertilisers supplied by large businesses , while retailing of produce is done by large companies taking a big slice of the profit . |
| 5 | This effect was more pronounced in rats taking the high phosphate diets . |
| 6 | For the industrial countries as a whole , around half the increase in imported manufactures between the years 1950 and 1963 represented greater import penetration of the domestic market and half reflected a larger market ; between 1963 and 1971 , when trade between the advanced countries grew by 156 per cent , almost two-thirds of the increase represented imports taking a greater share of the domestic market . |
| 7 | Yet in Victorian Britain the alliance of wealth and birth formed in the public schools infused sport with a new idealism whilst simultaneously segregating the élite from members of the lower classes taking the same form of exercise . |
| 8 | Britain 's businesses took a longer Christmas break than their European competitors this year , with millions of workers taking a two week holiday . |
| 9 | We can see this indirectly from the LFS data which shows that the proportion of temporary working which is " involuntary " ( the proportion of temporary workers taking a temporary job because they were unable to find a permanent job ) is highest in those regions where unemployment too is highest . |
| 10 | The difficulties encountered by workers taking the generative approach has led to the search for alternative techniques . |
| 11 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
| 12 | The final quarter was an untidy affair on both sides with the conditions taking a heavy toll on concentration and stamina . |
| 13 | The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students . |
| 14 | Residents in a moorland hamlet are urging action to combat heavy lorries taking a short cut down narrow country lanes . |
| 15 | It was clear to everyone that most of the patients taking the new drug would be over 65 , and that elderly people have greater difficulty in eliminating drugs from their bodies than younger ones . |
| 16 | There are many modern examples of artists taking a nonchalent attitude to their own work . |
| 17 | Such pre-conditions might include the verification of financial or other information relating to the target , or merger control authorities taking a certain course of action , or the target complying with its obligations under Rule 20.2 ( equality of information to a bona fide competing potential offeror ) . |
| 18 | Conservative dissatisfaction with the episode of 1963 led almost immediately to the adoption of a procedure for election of the party leader by a ballot of members taking the Conservative whip . |
| 19 | There is no way of telling whether those ‘ hurt ’ by insider dealing are more numerous than those ‘ hurt ’ by trading before inside facts have impacted the market via ‘ legitimate ’ disclosure rules , so that investors are price-takers taking a faulty price . |
| 20 | On the other hand , indirect taxes have also been criticized on welfare grounds for being regressive , the element of indirect tax embodied in commodity prices taking a higher proportion of the income from lower-paid groups . |
| 21 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 22 | For those in Grade D the salaries range from £15,928 to £21,797 , with maximum performance points taking the possible total to £26,523 . |
| 23 | Jim Lovelock accorded autonomy to the planet as a whole , with humans taking the humble role of Gaia 's brain cells . |
| 24 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 25 | Couples taking a romantic stroll on the loch-side ? |
| 26 | The event will be a feast of international music , dance and cuisine , with children taking a large part in proceedings . |
| 27 | Students taking a single subject degree course , study their degree subject throughout all four years and study other supporting subjects in addition during the earlier years . |
| 28 | Students taking an opposing view argued that it was the usage of the media that was evil and not the media themselves . |
| 29 | Wherever he looked , he saw human beings taking the wrong turning . |
| 30 | If , alongside this , boys are allowed to develop e.g. their caring faculties and to contemplate traditionally female careers such as nursing and social work , we might also see fewer boys taking A level mathematics and finding it unsatisfying for them , as Sheila Russell 's research ( 1983 ) indicated is all too frequently the case . |