Example sentences of "[verb] taken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 2 | Nivelle Elite , who all sired some excellent stock , some of which was exported to Australia and at the time of writing , has taken Best in Show at Club Championship Show level . |
| 3 | Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme . |
| 4 | He has taken longer than expected to show some of the skills and pace expected . |
| 5 | I am sorry that it has taken longer to respond to your recent telephone call than I had expected , but I have now examined all the papers relating to this matter and have re-visited Captains Road . |
| 6 | An earlier item on the Review Board agenda has taken longer than expected . |
| 7 | The separatist Northern League , which wants to secede from Rome , is now the strongest party of the wealthy north , and in Sicily the anti-Mafia movement of a former mayor , Leoluca Orlando , has taken nearly half the vote of the capital , Palermo . |
| 8 | Launched this week aboard a two-stage Delta rocket from NASA 's Western Test Range at Lompoc , California , IRAS has taken nearly 10 years to progress from the drawing board to lift-off . |
| 9 | It has taken nearly nine months to finalise all the accounts and each venture takes about six months to plan . |
| 10 | So far this has taken nearly three billion years of slow evolution , occasionally fuelled by a flurry of faster change . |
| 11 | This has taken nearly two hours to write . |
| 12 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 13 | Tamati has taken on a lot but life from here should not be dull for Salford 's long-suffering support . |
| 14 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 15 | She has worked tirelessly and helped raise millions of pounds for the charities she has taken on . |
| 16 | Like the Prince , she requests and gathers together information and reading material on all of the subjects she has taken on . |
| 17 | Martin Hardwidge , the General Secretary , left in April and Stuart Waddington has taken on that role . |
| 18 | Since moving into a gymnasium in Florida and working with Vic Andreetti , a former British champion from the East End of London , Benn has taken on a new mantle . |
| 19 | Since moving into a gymnasium in Florida and working with Vic Andreetti , a former British champion from the East End of London , Benn has taken on a new mantle . |
| 20 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 21 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
| 22 | The parliamentary party has taken on a new style , in which the old alliance of interests to which Henry Fairlie alluded has fractured . |
| 23 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
| 24 | Recently , Tina Benson , the captain 's sister , has taken on the role of marketing manager . |
| 25 | The site of the garden has taken on special significance since A Morbid Taste for Bones , by Ellis Peters , was published in 1977 . |
| 26 | In introducing the subject Grant commented that while it was important in crime investigation , it has taken on a new significance in the past year because of the large number of valuable documents that had been damaged as a result of fires caused by enemy action . |
| 27 | This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ . |
| 28 | Since its early expression was in the form of sexual relations between conquering white soldiers and dominated Indian women , it has taken on a distinctly aggressive element which can emerge in the form of violence . |
| 29 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 30 | Any smallholder would do well to join a local ATB group , particularly if he has taken on his own farm with relatively little experience . |