Example sentences of "[be] take [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're taking part in a NATO excercise . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been thinking , it 's a long time since the two of us went out together , so I 'm taking Ruth for a bite to eat . |
| 3 | No , I 'll tell them first , you know that I 'm taking part in a survey , you know ? |
| 4 | Twenty-eight dealers will be taking part including a number of influential names who have not previously attended . |
| 5 | On other occasions your spokesman may be taking part in a panel discussion . |
| 6 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 7 | The 12 , all members of the North Wales Wildlife Trust , will be taking part in a 300-mile bike ride around Gwynedd and Clwyd . |
| 8 | She will be taking part in a programme on this subject on March the twenty-ninth . |
| 9 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 10 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 11 | The party seemed to be taking place in a room off at the right . |
| 12 | Mixing the familiar and the foreign , new and potentially productive connections may be taking place in a number of areas . |
| 13 | Oil palm growers in the Malaysian state of Sabah are taking advantage of a loophole in conservation law to threaten the habitat of proboscis monkeys . |
| 14 | Look at the people who are taking part in a revolt . |
| 15 | POLICE forces throughout the country are taking part in a survey to discover how effective , efficient and popular the police are . |
| 16 | Fourteen cities are taking part in a campaign to attract more tourists . |
| 17 | Following close behind is the parade , 140 recruits and eighteen staff Who are taking part in a rehearsal for today 's parade with the band , which is the Pegasus Band of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 18 | Four Spanish electricity-generating companies are taking part in a pilot project , funded by the European Community ( EC ) , to produce electricity from coal with a new technology which reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants . |
| 19 | I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think . |
| 20 | Karatzias , 39 , and partner Craigen Pappas are taking part in a £700,000 event against a field that includes US Masters champion Fred Couples , and former world No.1s Ian Woosnam and Bernhard Langer . |
| 21 | Eight prisoners serving sentences for offences ranging from drug trafficking to armed robbery are taking part in a conference on violence in society . |
| 22 | The branch are taking part in a car boot sale on the village green on May 2nd . |
| 23 | We are taking action on a number of fronts to tackle this problem . |
| 24 | Discussions are taking place on a number of other issues , for example , to ensure that these themes are co-ordinated and promoted more strongly , and to investigate the funding of short- term feasibility studies involving applicants from both IT and engineering departments . |
| 25 | The ongoing experiments in this research project are taking place on a network of Unix workstations with a prototype document reuse tool that has a relational database back-end and an X-windows interface . |
| 26 | But those big percentage reductions are taking place at a point on the network where the southern bypass has already reduced the flows , so th those parts of the network would be much less in need of relief . |
| 27 | 1990 sees the Mill 's Tenth Anniversary , however , and various celebrations are taking place including a buffet meal and time of thanksgiving , celebration and praise . |
| 28 | Role conflicts within individual marriages are taking place in a context of rapid social change and all the uncertainties that attend it . |
| 29 | Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head . |
| 30 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |