Example sentences of "[is] taking [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The general election is taking over the school .
2 On an assets purchase , Newco will not acquire any of the vendor 's trading losses or unutilised capital allowances , and they may not be usable by the vendor , for example where Newco is taking over the liabilities which reduce the aggregate value of the target business down to a nominal amount .
3 Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States .
4 The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in .
5 UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ .
6 Euro MP Stephen Hughes is taking up the case of lorry driver Bob Elder , 47 , of South View , Tantobie , Stanley , who faces financial ruin because his truck has been impounded after he was involved in a fatal accident in Italy .
7 The group is taking up the case of Christine Byers from Airdrie whose husband died only weeks before the July cut-off date .
8 If it is upsetting to think that the education system now denies many children that voyage of discovery which begins on the muddy playing field , it is encouraging to learn that sport at club level is taking up the strain .
9 The affair , dubbed Baftagate by members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is taking on the dimensions of a drama itself .
10 The affair , dubbed Baftagate by members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is taking on the dimensions of a drama itself .
11 The essence of being a good child is taking on the perspective of those who are more powerful than you , and I was good in this way as my sister never was .
12 The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS .
13 So the mayor 's taking out the oranges ?
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