Example sentences of "taking the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the present bullion value of gold as 400 dollars , the ducat or florin would be worth in present British money about £30 . |
| 2 | Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane . |
| 3 | At Gribba Head East , Pete O'Sullivan was in need of a Skin Graft , E2 5c , after climbing the hanging crack on the upper left side of the face and was also responsible for Hysterical Hamsters , E4 6b , at Chairladder , taking the right hand arête of South East Buttress . |
| 4 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 5 | It lists the following options : ( i ) reducing irrigation ; ( ii ) improving irrigation efficiency ; ( iii ) improving water management by providing consumers with incentives to conserve water ; ( iv ) introducing other crops , including other strains of rice and cotton , with lower water needs ; and ( v ) taking the poorest quality land out of production . |
| 6 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 7 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 8 | Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met . |
| 9 | In the preface to this book Anne and Don Byrne state that instead of taking the usual text book approach to psychology they have ‘ decided to identify those areas of psychology which are directly relevant to the practice of nursing . ’ |
| 10 | That totals £40 million or , if you take the lowest figure — excluding the ‘ risk factor ’ and taking the lowest endowment figure — £30 million ! |
| 11 | He emerged intact from a chastening first championship appearance in a Martlet sweater , taking the only Hampshire wicket to fall on a gruelling opening day and bowling more overs than anyone all told . |
| 12 | As a replacement , IBM is taking the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) and Distributed Management environment ( DME ) developed by the Open Software Foundation . |
| 13 | We must also extend our congratulations to our neighbours , FC Titford Polymer Converters , for taking the Second Division championship at the first attempt . |
| 14 | EMMA THOMPSON won Britain 's version of an Oscar last night , taking the best actress award for her role in Howards End , which was also named best film . |
| 15 | Quite amazingly I hear that the selectors are undecided about taking the best wicket keeper Jack Russell — and could give Yorkshire 's Richard Blakey a first major tour on the grounds that there will be eight one-day international games . |
| 16 | The average rectifier current is given by and this works out , taking the highest voltage output as 15V at 3A , at . |
| 17 | Taking the supplied fuel bottle filled to the recommended level gives sufficient burning time for a trip of up to several days . |
| 18 | It was also a fine day for sailing and dozens of small yachts clustered in Exmouth bay , taking the early sea breeze . |
| 19 | Iulian Vlad , 59 , the head of the now disbanded Securitate secret police and Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior under the regime of President Ceausescu until Dec. 22 , 1989 , on charges of taking the dissident Dumitru Mazilu into custody illegally on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |
| 20 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 21 | For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years . |
| 22 | Pilot Skip Holm is a former USAF and Lockheed test pilot who was involved with the development programme for the F-117 ! stealth aircraft , and is a regular competitor at the Reno Air Races , taking the Unlimited championship title twice . |
| 23 | But taking the objective Macdonald view in this first season back in the Premier Division , survival was his first concern for Airdrie , the avoidance of relegation for a club which in realistic terms has no money to buy quality players , crowds averaging less than 5,000 and a creaking , obsolute stadium . |
| 24 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
| 25 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 26 | Those taking the later view claim : . |
| 27 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 28 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 29 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 30 | As a consequence of taking the prescribed drug thalidomide , something like 8,000 pregnant mothers in the United States , Germany , Japan , Britain , Ireland , Sweden , Australia , Canada , Brazil , Italy , and Spain gave birth to monstrously deformed babies . |