Example sentences of "[Wh det] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | KEN LIVINGSTONE was yesterday knocked off Labour 's national executive in a vote which took the Brent East MP and his left-wing associates by surprise . |
| 2 | The disaster at sea which took the lives of 165 oilmen is still the subject of inquiry . |
| 3 | Our hinterland of the imaginary actually consisted of grass tussocks , brambles , a grove of willows , some hawthorns , a beech tree or two , drainage ditches , a slow and deep brook with steep banks , a weir , twin tunnels which took the stream beneath the main Derby to Nottingham road and , upstream , a wooden footbridge and wobbly stepping stones . |
| 4 | In a pattern of development which took the form of a circus containing a garden at the centre , with roads radiating towards the cardinal points , the land was divided into small plots which were developed by various builders between 1843 and 1850 . |
| 5 | The man , a publishing consultant , said : ‘ I was in the front coach of the Bournemouth train which took the full impact of the crash and where most of the 35 died . ’ |
| 6 | However , it was the New English Bible and the Church of England 's Alternative Service which took the brunt of the prince 's speech as he presented the Thomas Cranmer Schools prize , sponsored jointly by the Spectator and the Prayer Book Society , at St James 's Church , Garlickhythe , in the City . |
| 7 | However , it was the New English Bible and the Church of England 's Alternative Service which took the brunt of the prince 's speech as he presented the Thomas Cranmer Schools prize , sponsored jointly by the Spectator and the Prayer Book Society , at St James 's Church , Garlickhythe , in the City . |
| 8 | But Mr Christopher Prout , MEP , leader of the Tories ’ Euro-group , which took the brunt of Mrs Thatcher 's Gaullism in the European elections , becomes a knight . |
| 9 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 10 | He is a skilled choreographer of action scenes ; in his ‘ Romeo and Juliet ’ , the street fighting between the Capulets and the Montagus feels as modern and relevant as ‘ West Side Story ’ ( which took the theme and modernised it ) . |
| 11 | On Thursday 2 May , I opened with a slide show which took the Cabinet through all the changes and complexities of the subject . |
| 12 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 13 | Mark Bright joined the Palace from Leicester City in November 1986 in a £75,000 deal and it was the goals from this cultured striker , along with those from partner Ian Wright , which took the Palace back to the 1st Division in 1989 , while also helping to make the twosome Palace 's top scorers in the League 's higher divisions , as well as one of the most prolific striking partnerships in the country at that time . |
| 14 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 15 | When Mark Bright arrived on the Palace scene the following year the duo soon established a marvellously successful striking twosome and it was largely their goals which took the club to the promotion play-offs and a return to Division One in 1989 . |
| 16 | His ‘ Organ ’ Symphony , recorded in Les Invalides , never sounded particularly impressive on LP given rather cloudy sound which took the edge off what was obviously a fine performance , but CD remastering has done wonders for the engineering and the results are most exciting . |
| 17 | In our view it was Charles H. Cleveland 's ‘ Glite ’ for the North Pacific Products Co. which took the conical cambered diamond into the mass marketplace and stimulated the two-line variation of its basic single line operation ; but there was yet one other little known patent that pre-dated almost all these attempts to obtain control by rudder or lateral tension in the bridles . |
| 18 | Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes . |
| 19 | When Quincy Jones became a convert , validating the view that rap is the bebop of our time , he saw an opening for a magazine which took the music and its environment seriously . |
| 20 | A similar statement was issued by the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association ( RRA ) , which took the opportunity to inform the IDA , Cork County Council and the IIRS that they were opposing applications to dump asbestos both at Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 21 | The only gloom was on jobs , but even here the Treasury report pointed out that January 's rise in unemployment , which took the toll above three million , was the smallest seasonally-adjusted rise for seven months . |
| 22 | It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years . |
| 23 | ‘ When we led 12-11 we had three free kicks against us which took the momentum out of our play . ’ |
| 24 | Winger Jim Fallon beats the Gloucester cover for the try which took the Kingsholm semi-final into extra-time before Bath scraped through 27–18 . |
| 25 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
| 26 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 27 | In other words the impetus which took the community into school and the school into the community came from two different directions . |
| 28 | The relocation of Husky 's UK operations to Coventry has paid off , and a large order has already been placed through US distributor Itron Inc , which took the US utility sales and service operations in December ( CI No 2,076 ) . |
| 29 | The steamboats which took the cotton north are beautiful craft . |
| 30 | Stretching it further by setting up trading posts inland seemed neither necessary nor prudent , so a network of Indian traders grew up which took the Company 's goods inland . |