Example sentences of "has take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All development is now done on Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC Snake workstations running Unix — SAS has taken $5m worth of the things — the SAS system as a whole now runs to over four million lines of code . |
| 2 | Naturally , not only the evangelical church has taken opportunity of the open door — cults are also active , notably Bahai and Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 3 | ‘ This government has taken Britain into Europe further and more irrevocably than any previous government . |
| 4 | He has taken Britain into negative growth , rising unemployment and falling output . |
| 5 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he has taken offence . |
| 7 | IF YOU want to watch television around midnight on the Sabbath , and if you happen to be in a region where nothing less important has taken precedence , you can follow one of the most excellent science series of recent times . |
| 8 | The occasional over-indulgence on the odd night out — when ‘ a lot of what you fancy ’ has taken precedence over your normal eating habits — matters not . |
| 9 | Eliot had already discussed the possibility of introducing more poetry into his drama , after the rigorous starkness of The Cocktail Party , but once more in this play his reliance upon form and formal manipulation has taken precedence . |
| 10 | They point out that the conservation value of the land to be planted has not been considered in the report 's assessment , and that commercial viability has taken precedence . |
| 11 | On each of these questions revisionist work has taken issue with the liberal view and demonstrated the mounting instability of pre-war Russia . |
| 12 | Gilroy ( 1987 ) has taken issue with the common reading of criminal statistics and black people . |
| 13 | THE Livestock Marketing Commission has taken issue with some figures quoted by John Ramuz , of the British Chicken Information Service , at the Poultry Association of Northern Ireland biennial conference this week . |
| 14 | ‘ We would n't have thought it possible , ’ said Lyn , daughter of Angela , who has taken Sam to classes . |
| 15 | Having left its Uniplex Ltd sibling to do its own thing since it acquired the the firm back in December of last year , the Unix office software firm 's new parent , Birmingham-based IMI plc has taken matters in hand , appointing its own board director of computing operations , Roy Amos , as group chairman of Uniplex . |
| 16 | This is particularly marked in The Mysteries of Udolpho , for when Mrs Radcliffe describes the cottage in which her heroine has taken shelter , she writes of this ‘ bower of sweets ’ as though the reader stood outside it , although Emily , whose view he shares , is indoors , at her bedroom window : ‘ The cottage , which was shaded by the woods from the intenser rays of the sun , and was open only to his evening light , was covered entirely with vines , fig-trees , and jessamine whose flowers surpassed in size and fragrance any that Emily had seen . ’ |
| 17 | Confidence in road building has taken knocks too . |
| 18 | Carlton 's second arm , set up only in September to create a promotional books business for Hodder and Pan Macmillan , has taken £1.5m of orders to date . |
| 19 | The association has taken heart from a recent prosecution which saw one offender fined £20,000 . |
| 20 | The government 's legislation on industrial relations and trade unions has taken hold . |
| 21 | His package appealed primarily to upscale white suburbanites , but it has taken hold with other candidates and could be merged with Mr Clinton 's platform without either side losing face . |
| 22 | However , as the image of the older consumer as a pensioner on the poverty line has taken hold , the market had been slow to respond to the increasing affluence of older people . |
| 23 | Enterprise The ‘ enterprise culture ’ has taken hold . |
| 24 | Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold , primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule . |
| 25 | It would respond immediately to an increase in carbon monoxide levels , working quicker than current detectors which respond to smoke after a fire has taken hold . |
| 26 | Since the Khartoum regime launched a five-pronged ‘ final offensive ’ against the mainly Christian or animist rebels in early March , its army has taken Pochala , Col Garang 's hometown of Bor , and a string of smaller towns , advancing to within 30 miles west of the rebel headquarters at Torit . |
| 27 | There are over 7,200 drawings extant and it has taken Claudie Judrin ten years to complete the task . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd give a bag of gold , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ to know what has taken Santerre to Glastonbury . |
| 29 | Obviously , I do not know the answer , nor do I trust the American claim that only one in 10 therapists over there has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded . |
| 30 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |