Example sentences of "to taking the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Charles Bradlaugh , returned time after time by the electors of Northampton was first found by the courts ( on the application of an informer for a penalty ) to be disentitled to affirm ( since , having no religion , he had no religious objection to taking the oath ) ( in Clarke v Bradlaugh ( 1881 ) 7 QBD 38 , reversed but not on this point in Bradlaugh v Clarke ( 1883 ) 8 App Cas 354 ) . |
| 2 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 3 | Erm Catholics would be highly unlikely to consent to taking the sacraments of the Protestant church . |
| 4 | En route to taking the waters in western Europe , the tsar met General Nazimov at Vil'na and learned that the gentry of the north-western provinces remained keen on freeing their serfs . |
| 5 | He had pleaded guilty earlier to taking the craft without authority last March . |
| 6 | Two of them have also been accused to taking the drug ecstasy . |
| 7 | How can we condemn the majority of American and Canadian graduates to taking the PLAB examination on the basis of one misdemeanour by an unqualified American citizen ? |
| 8 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
| 9 | And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up . |
| 10 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 11 | As he watched his gifted little daughter sobbing her heart out prior to taking the tee in the Girls ' Championship at Leven in 1975 , he told her that she must either play without fuss or stop playing altogether . |
| 12 | Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that we very much welcome his commitment to taking the path of democracy regardless of where it leads ? |
| 13 | If anyone admits to taking the Tatler , they will find that one of the Clergy of the Parish , Dr William Oddie has contributed a major article in the June number on the appointment of a new Archbishop . |
| 14 | The agreement , reached at an informal conference in Amsterdam , was described by the EC Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , as a " turning point in environment policy , a shift from command-and-control methods to taking the environment into the market place " . |