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

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1 The three-hour ferry cruise will feature a live commentary about the vessels taking part .
2 I think we would have verify that there are Ottery kids taking part in that particular year .
3 The position might be different if Woolwich had paid under threat of the revenue taking distress proceedings without a court order under section 61 of the Taxes Management Act 1980 , but as I have said there is no evidence that such drastic and highly unusual proceedings were either threatened by the revenue or anticipated by Woolwich , still less that Woolwich had a reasonable apprehension of being put out of business by them .
4 There were several clergy taking part in the service , but we had only one 1928 Revised Prayer Book , which was passed round .
5 To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes !
6 Vouchers are only valid for rallies taking place before 31st December 1991 .
7 There are five pits in the complex taking coal to a central depot .
8 The launch of the Front was placed in some jeopardy when on Oct. 17 the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) denounced 14 of the organizations taking part in the conference for either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up .
9 In recent years the growth of ‘ consumerism ’ or consumer protection lobbies has led to many organizations taking action to improve the service to the customer after the sale has been concluded .
10 Rapidly advancing technologies in health care and clinical practice taking place across the whole spectrum of medical , surgical and mental health specialties depend for their success to a large degree on the sufficiency of sound nursing skills and personnel .
11 The devotion , care and research taking place in Bristol in the effort to combat these tragedies is uplifting .
12 It 's packed full of training , nutritional and medical advice , plus it keep you informed about the latest research taking place in this country and abroad .
13 Is it part of the meaning of ’ institution of higher education' , such that we would not be prepared to grant the name to an institution in which there was no research taking place ?
14 But this is incidental , for it is not a condition of research taking place .
15 There is also leading edge research taking place into pushing the limits of compression as far as they can possibly go .
16 There is also a strong nucleus of contemporary artists centred around the Art College of Madeira ( Instituto Superior de Artes Plasticas da Madeira — ISAPM ) which has students from Madeira and Portugal taking courses in art , sculpture , graphics and visual art .
17 Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ?
18 We would also ask you to observe the tradition of dinner on the terrace taking place by candlelight .
19 This year 's festival will see performances taking place in three cities simultaneously — Derry , Dublin and Belfast .
20 And the report from the Health and Safety Executive demanded a crackdown on railmen taking drink or drugs .
21 L/Cpl Edwards was driving a Warrior armoured personnel carrier , one of two British army vehicles escorting an ambulance taking casualties to Split on January 13 .
22 He was driving a Warrior armoured personnel carrier , one of two vehicles escorting a civilian ambulance taking casualties to the coastal resort of Split on January 13 .
23 He was driving a Warrior armoured personnel carrier , one of two vehicles escorting a civilian ambulance taking casualties to the coastal resort of Split on January 13 , when the sniper opened fire .
24 We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked .
25 Earlier atomism had always involved atoms ultimately of the same stuff ; and in the nineteenth century ‘ physical atoms ’ , the real ultimate building-blocks of the world ( probably of very few different sorts ) were distinguished from Dalton 's ‘ chemical atoms ’ , the smallest units taking part in chemical changes .
26 Wales ' Athletics Association aims to hold eight county championships , with the winners taking part in the Welsh Regional Championship in Cardiff next March .
27 The £500,000 deal taking David Kerslake to Leeds went through this morning , so there has to be a reshuffle .
28 Even when the tholoid is shrouded in mist and invisible , as it often is in the afternoon , the dry clattering continues , with every now and then a much larger collapse taking place .
29 IAT 's Air Tournament International 92 is being held at the A&AEE Boscombe Down on the 13th and 14th , and promises more than 400 aircraft taking part statically and in each day 's eight-hour flying display .
30 This Thursday marks the ( 75th ) seventy fifth anniversary of the Royal Air Force , with almost ( 150 ) a hundred and fifty aircraft taking part in a Royal fly-past .
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