Example sentences of "taking the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system . |
| 2 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 3 | At the same time , a nasty backward glance , a creeping suspicion suggested a consultation with Anderson might have been a wise idea before taking the practical action that had ended in such discouraging disaster … |
| 4 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 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 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |
| 7 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |
| 8 | ‘ We are way behind in taking the necessary measures that will help to prevent this kind of tragedy happening again . |
| 9 | Meet the new breed of enchantress , the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female perspective . |
| 10 | When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted . |
| 11 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |
| 12 | Half the country taking the emigrant ship and Eddie Hogan decides to expand . ’ |
| 13 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 14 | Do yourself and the community a favour by taking the rusty iron and junk you find to the nearest litter bin . |
| 15 | In Fig. 8.1. the algorithm is misled into taking the leftmost path because its actual cost , 3 , is less than the estimate , 4 , ( though not the actual cost , 2 ) of the correct , rightmost path . |
| 16 | At the moment there is vigorous theoretical argument among people who study animal signals , with some taking the extreme position that signals carry no accurate information about the state of the signaller and others arguing that the signals are extremely reliable . |
| 17 | Then the Einstein equation is The choice of the constant of proportionality will be justified in Section 7.4 by taking the classical limit and showing that Newton 's law of gravitation is then obtained . |
| 18 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 19 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 20 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 21 | ‘ Poor Laura — you never were any good at getting up in the morning , were you ? ’ he mocked softly , taking the clattering cup and saucer from her shaking hands , before leaning forward to brush a stray tendril of hair from her brow . |
| 22 | ‘ Guy told me to stay on , ’ Tara said politely , taking the empty plate and cup from under her nose . |
| 23 | We walked the length of the Hall , instead of taking the short cut though the darkened Ophthalmic Department . |
| 24 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's agreement with Eo Inc on the marketing and perhaps later the manufacturing of its Eo 440 and 880 handheld communicators in Europe ( CI No 2,124 ) involves the Italian taking the same stake as everyone else in Eo — the entry fee is $10m , with which it gets a seat on the firm 's board . |
| 25 | The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But this one man did give him Rule Britannia , and got him all taking the same time as him ! |
| 28 | To Barth , this could only indicate that Bultmann was in effect taking the same path as their nineteenth-century forefathers . |
| 29 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 30 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |