Example sentences of "that was take [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To illustrate the point , he describes an incident recorded in a chronicle of Hainault concerning a judicial duel that was to take place at dawn . |
2 | Mansfield thought out her stories first , made brief notes to remind herself of the details , of the change that was to take place , and then wrote . |
3 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
4 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
5 | I know a lass that was taking communion . |
6 | He spoke of the ‘ renaissance in world history ’ that was taking place along the rim of the Pacific , and declared that his country — the greater part of which , he told his audience , lay ‘ East of the Urals ’ — was about to develop a coherent attitude towards it and its people . |
7 | The presence of these large populations of insects , whirring and buzzing through the air of the ancient forests , was eventually to play an extremely important part in a revolution that was taking place among the plants . |
8 | Caroline , Giles and Georgiana went into the Ballroom , to be allocated places on tiered seating with a perfect view of everything that was taking place . |
9 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
10 | The state of the nation was inevitably one of the major themes of the talk on the hills at that period ; but so also was the change that was taking place rapidly in the collieries of the steam-coal areas where work was being ‘ rationalized ’ , a much-used euphemism for the cutting of labour costs . |
11 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
12 | And even before the pit closure programme started with the increased competition that was taking place inside the mines , the increased productivity erm we 've seen a steady rise in the number of back accidents , erm you know spinal erm related accidents . |