Example sentences of "[noun] [been] take " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But my Eustace hav been taken away .
2 have steps been taken to optimise the behavioural response of those affected by the change ; for example , the effect of transfer of work and changes in roles between clerical staff and decision-makers ?
3 The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in .
4 Have specific steps been taken to attract men and " mature " women to nurse training ?
5 Have steps been taken to assess the impact of educational events and learner allocation on the availability of manpower ?
6 Have steps been taken to assess the impact of building programmes and medical staff absence on patient activities ?
7 In Russia , for example , only recently and haltingly have steps been taken to move towards a system of private land ownership .
8 The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land .
9 We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier .
10 Nor , it was pointed out , had any action been taken to end the discriminatory " Status Acts " passed between 1976 and 1981 which unilaterally conferred " independence " on the homelands of Transkei , Bophutatswana , Venda and Ciskei , whose people , totalling 8,000,000 , had been deprived of their South African nationality .
11 ‘ We concluded that the outcome may well have been different had a different path of management been taken , ’ he said .
12 No sooner hat the dish been taken from the oven than a tortoiseshell cat entered the room , and leapt , via Mark 's knee , on to the table .
13 She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife .
14 ‘ Has the device been taken to the cemetery ? ’
15 We do n't want the problems on our own doorstep cos when the chips are down , we like to go home , and we like to feel safe and if somebody 's entered your premises as an intruder then all of a sudden your security been taken away .
16 Or had her body been taken there after … ?
17 This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today .
18 Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line .
19 Might not that message been taken up by my immune system ?
20 Nor had any effective measures been taken after the Fleming Report was submitted to Butler in 1944 .
21 Has any account been taken of the record of those advisers in past sell-offs ?
22 And as far as we know there 's no been no account been taken that er the subsequent development that is likely to take place on any of these roads , which is clearly implied in some of that statements , of the consequent traffic that that would generate in itself .
23 Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year .
24 Therefore what we are recognizing is that there would be developments on these roads Mr chairman , I would ask in fact in their assessments of their traffic flows and the environmental impact , has any of that element been taken into account ?
25 The survey was conducted before base rates rose to 15 per cent , and Dun and Bradstreet suggest that its findings might have been even bleaker had the poll been taken after the move .
26 But source critics , prompted by the recurring refrain " And the rest of the deeds of King X , are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah/Israel ? " , have concluded that much of the early material in the book has in fact been taken from royal annals and other trustworthy contemporary records .
27 The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases .
28 Have the receptionists been taking lessons from camels ?
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