Example sentences of "taking [adv prt] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For headteachers there are opportunities , but also considerable anxieties , involved in taking on greater financial control of the school budget , and these are bound to radiate throughout the school . |
| 2 | ‘ It must be hard on her taking on all this responsibility . ’ |
| 3 | The Iraqi air force last week announced it would attack with Exocet missiles any ship taking on Iranian crude oil . |
| 4 | We must not do anything to discourage people from taking on that caring role . |
| 5 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |
| 6 | Well , where I currently am is is saying that we should seek to revue the Commission 's overall boundaries with a view to us taking on some extra work , and that meanwhile we should suspend further recruitment . |
| 7 | As well as taking up good growing space , they compete with the other plants for light , moisture and nutrients . |
| 8 | She started on Adam for taking up that shameful suggestion about selling what she called the family silver . |
| 9 | All I could think about while I was taking up that extraordinary inheritance was you . ’ |
| 10 | For those who are interested in taking up more formal exercise , the best types are aerobic exercises such as swimming , walking and stationary cycling , which most people can perform , regardless of their fitness level . |
| 11 | The song was n't in the ground , it was inside her head , growing louder , taking up more precious space in her sundered mind . |
| 12 | If a member of , say , the Hohenzollerns decided to keep the wolf from the door by taking up this particular trade , then royal here clearly would be true of the hatmaker ; i.e. the property ROYAL would apply to the E present to the mind of the speaker describing such an individual . |
| 13 | Her motive in taking up this particular post had no purpose now that she realised that Luke would never go back on his story . |
| 14 | High interest rates may discourage many firms from taking out long-term fixed interest loans . |
| 15 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , through taking out individual DOUBLE PAYOUT PLANS , each has provided the other with a guaranteed lump sum in the event of death — in Alec 's case , at least £11,655 . |
| 17 | Capital expenditure over five years has averaged £13m per annum ; taking out one major education project , the average would be £10m , and in neither case is it the £15m claimed . |