Example sentences of "is taking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 2 | Although IBM says a gateway is possible , it is taking the former approach , and the plan is gradually to convert its most important system software to the architecture . |
| 3 | James Capel is taking the latter tack , while Hoare Govett , which will soon be 51% owned by its employees , will concentrate on quality here . |
| 4 | As a replacement , IBM is taking the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) and Distributed Management environment ( DME ) developed by the Open Software Foundation . |
| 5 | The president is taking the key decision as to whether to increase his forces in the Gulf and to switch from a defensive to an offensive posture . |
| 6 | Compared with that , is taking the final step with me so scary ? |
| 7 | In what has been described as the first case of its kind in Britain , Greenpeace is taking the chemical concern ICI to court , accusing it of illegally discharging pollutants . |
| 8 | Texaco , the giant American oil company , is taking the Dutch government to court over its decision to build a conventional coal-fired power plant near to Rotterdam . |
| 9 | ‘ The company is taking the wider view , being proactive over staff well-being . ’ |
| 10 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 11 | The Yorkshire is taking the same approach but also provides booster discounts that will cut the cost of a mortgage by 2.55 per cent for first-time buyers , but only for six months . |
| 12 | Over the weekend only a third of ambulance crews were working in London , where the dispute is taking the biggest toll because of staff shortages . |
| 13 | ‘ No ! ’ he said , ‘ you 'll never get a job as long as your father is taking the Daily Herald ! ’ |
| 14 | It justifies the move as proof that it is taking the independent platform integration business seriously . |
| 15 | Object Linking and Embedding , better known as OLE ( as Kahn commented ‘ the only object-oriented thing about OLE is its name ’ ) is taking the initial baby steps towards object technology , but as far as Microsoft is concerned all object roads lead to Cairo . |
| 16 | Make sure that the baby 's body is facing the breast and that he or she is taking the whole nipple to fill its mouth . |
| 17 | The environmental group Greenpeace is taking the National Rivers Authority to court over what it claims is the NRA 's " hopelessly inadequate " efforts to counter pollution . |
| 18 | The Taiwan Rugby Football Union is taking the adventurous step , one which has not been contemplated before , of sending a national squad overseas solely for training purposes . |
| 19 | CompuAdd Computer Corp , the Austin , Texas personal computer manufacturer and retailer , is taking the drastic step of closing all 110 of its stores at the cost of over 600 jobs . |