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

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1 We know that er sixteen schools at least are taking part at the Cotswold Wildlife Park , er we know of at least ten at the walk at Broughton Park , er we 've got er students from polytechnics , Brownies , Guides , Headington Slimmers Magazine Club have registered a team , the advisory centre for multicultural education , Oxford City courier newspaper are promising to send teams .
2 We 've got twenty five schools taking part at the moment .
3 ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’
4 Fulham were ordered to pay the overdue sum , amounting to £20 4s 5d , plus three guineas expenses , and Leeds were reprimanded for not taking money at the gates .
5 Scott started taking marijuana at the age of eleven .
6 A patrolling policewoman 's prompt call to Cleveland Fire Brigade prevented the fire from taking hold at the club , which was empty at the time .
7 This will give coverage to an activity taking place at the school but may only feature one or two children .
8 Professional journals such as The Times Educational Supplement , Child Education and Junior Education will carry photographs and features on innovative work taking place at the school , these can be reproduced for parents to reinforce the message that their children 's school is a leader .
9 They are displayed with a large fresco and the exhibition coincides with a survey of Cinalli 's recent work , emphasising his large pastel drawings on tissue paper , which is taking place at the Accademia Italiana ( 16 February-14 March ) and will then be shown in Argentina , Spain , Sweden and Russia .
10 ( There are , it must be said , changes taking place at the level of examination syllabuses and question papers where the role of women appears with increasing frequency . )
11 Diane Miles , marketing manager of Lancôme , identifies the shift as taking place at the level of presentation rather than formulation : ‘ There are very positive signs that consumers are becoming bored and frustrated by claims for anti-ageing creams which are couched in over-technical language .
12 Once appraised of the real facts , there was only one person that showed any opposition to flying taking place at the airfield .
13 It will then be possible to see the loco disposal taking place at the shed .
14 THE EXTENT of the philosophical shift taking place at the top of the Metropolitan Police was illustrated in a speech delivered by Sir Peter Imbert to the International Police Exhibition and Conference in London at the end of September .
15 After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports .
16 Each weekend during the summer will see an event of some kind taking place at the Museum .
17 For perhaps only the second time since the Turner Prize was inaugurated in 1984 , the jury , comprising Nicholas Serota , Director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude Beaud , Director of the Cartier Foundation , Robert Hopper , Director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Time Out 's art critic , Sarah Kent , and collector and director of CNN 's European operations , Howard Karshan , has compiled a genuinely balanced short-list of artists whose work will be shown in an exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery at the beginning of this month ( 4–29 November ) and from whom a winner will be announced at a formal dinner taking place at the museum on 24 November .
18 Keast , who was just able to recall the Jubilee celebrations for George III in 1810 taking place at the Bullers ' home at Shillingham , was to officiate at Queen 's Victoria 's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 at the age of 84 .
19 FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way .
20 Lucky Draw winner David Owen of Waterloo and his partner will be rubbing shoulders with the stars and sharing anecdotes no doubt with the big names and personalities at the awards lunch taking place at the Blundellsands Hotel .
21 This was taking place at the kitchen table .
22 Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link .
23 Well , the non recurrence of Gulf War in the first half is pretty well balanced by the recession that is taking place at the moment and is er , showing as we all know , little signs of lifting .
24 There is one taking place at the moment involving Internal Digital ( DEC ) employees and there seems to be a lot of traffic and interest in it , though I do n't have time for that one .
25 Since di Stefano comes from Liverpool , it is appropriate that there should be a survey of his art , thirty-four paintings , seven large woodcuts and other graphic works , spanning the last ten years and taking place at the Walker Art Gallery ( 29 January-14 March ) , which has been curated by Alex Kidson .
26 To coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the emergence of Fluxus in 1962 , an exhibition titled ‘ In the Spirit of Fluxus ’ is taking place at the Walker Art Center ( to 6 June ) .
27 Taking place at the Robert Atkinson Community Centre , Thornaby ( Monday afts . ) ,
28 Unusually , the wedding is taking place at the groom 's home rather than that of the bride , whose mother lives in a sizeable mansion outside Newmarket .
29 MUzicTech days are free , and will be taking place at the Buddle Arts Centre , Station Road , Wallsend , tomorrow Tuesday March 10 , and on Wednesday at the Dovecot Arts Centre , Stockton .
30 On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time .
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