Example sentences of "have been taking [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 2 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 3 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 4 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 5 | Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 6 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 7 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 8 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 9 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 11 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 12 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 13 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 14 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |