Example sentences of "[noun pl] taking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This effect was more pronounced in rats taking the high phosphate diets .
2 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 .
3 The difficulties encountered by workers taking the generative approach has led to the search for alternative techniques .
4 The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students .
5 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 .
6 The prevalence of gastric H pylori , active duodenitis , and gastric metaplasia was similar in patients taking the various NSAIDs with the exception of diclofenac and ketoprofen .
7 Another Methody student , Louise Hutchinson , cruised to two easy victories taking the senior girls 200 metres in 25.8 , clocked 61.4 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Jim Lovelock accorded autonomy to the planet as a whole , with humans taking the humble role of Gaia 's brain cells .
11 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 .
12 For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years .
13 Wherever he looked , he saw human beings taking the wrong turning .
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