Example sentences of "[to-vb] taken the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 2 | They hoped to arrange a meeting with Mr Mugabe , who in his capacity as Chancellor of the university was believed to have taken the decision to close the campus . |
| 3 | From More Eliot seems to have taken the word ‘ anfractuous , , and read that the poet undergoes ‘ a partial dissolution of his own personality ’ . |
| 4 | Falkirk looked to have taken the lead when a net-bound shot from Gary Lennox was kicked off the line by Derek Whyte . |
| 5 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 6 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 7 | It would have been cheaper to have taken the coach , if longer , but Dr Bailey had sent a curt postcard telling him it would be best for her to meet him off the noon train ; the campus was some way out of town , it would be best that way . |
| 8 | More recently , the appointment of Vial has been attributed to the influence of Granville Penn , who seems to have taken the Frenchman uncritically at his own valuation . |
| 9 | They seem to have taken the view that deportation was justified as a last resort when the victim had persistently ignored warnings , and when nothing further could be done to achieve his rehabilitation . |
| 10 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 11 | De Montfort 's men had to march up the northern scarp , but they still seem to have taken the royal forces , camped down in the priory grounds , by surprise . |
| 12 | He is believed to have taken the full force of the blast , on October 24 , 1990 , and died instantly . |
| 13 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 14 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 15 | Jackson , runner-up four years ago , is one of four Britons to have taken the Silver , although by finishing second in the 1896 final Grantley Goulding was also last . |
| 16 | The unexpectedness of this request seems to have taken the king by surprise . |
| 17 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge seemed to have taken the view that both sections 76 and 78 concerned misconduct by the police . |
| 19 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 20 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 21 | You seem to have taken the three-day week to heart too quickly . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Possessiveness seems to have taken the place of affection with them . |
| 23 | Knott claimed to have taken the mineral rights of " all the Isle of Man " , and claimed to have discovered some promising lodes there . |
| 24 | In the other quotation ( 2.21.6 ) he appears to have taken the Gorgon Medusa killed by Perseus as a member of a wild Libyan race : " he ( Procles ) had seen a man from this race brought to Rome " . |
| 25 | To have taken the portrait down would have marked her flight , distinguishing its importance beyond the dignified acceptance of the Family . |
| 26 | He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now . |
| 27 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 28 | Had there been no — and certainly no just-arrived audience — It would have been utterly lovely to have taken the phone and settled down for a chat , to be inspired and encouraged as always by the love you offer your friends and by your own zest for life physical and things spiritual . |
| 29 | Historians seem to have taken the lead from their subject : the RPF is still the least studied and least well-understood part of de Gaulle 's career . |
| 30 | After some early difficulties , his grip on England apparently became firm enough , and its magnates committed to the Danish dynasty : nobody seems to have taken the claims of the æthelings Edward and Alfred seriously in 1036 . |