Example sentences of "has taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , not only the evangelical church has taken opportunity of the open door — cults are also active , notably Bahai and Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 2 | Nevertheless he has taken offence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On each of these questions revisionist work has taken issue with the liberal view and demonstrated the mounting instability of pre-war Russia . |
| 8 | Gilroy ( 1987 ) has taken issue with the common reading of criminal statistics and black people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The association has taken heart from a recent prosecution which saw one offender fined £20,000 . |
| 12 | The government 's legislation on industrial relations and trade unions has taken hold . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Enterprise The ‘ enterprise culture ’ has taken hold . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd give a bag of gold , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ to know what has taken Santerre to Glastonbury . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |
| 21 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 22 | One of the few American dealers to take an interest in British Romanticism , Richard L. Feigen has taken advantage of the excellent exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence 's work at the Mellon Center at Yale to mount his own show , coupling Lawrence with Sir David Wilkie , an artist barely known to Americans . |
| 23 | The company has taken advantage of the exemption from presenting its own profit and loss account . |
| 24 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 25 | It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings ' water systems . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't feel anyone here has taken advantage of your grandmother , Matthew . |
| 27 | The fact that a person you trusted has taken advantage and gone into your home uninvited . |
| 28 | The extended partnership of business , local education service , university and polytechnic , in Sheffield has taken ownership of the Sheffield Record of Experience and Achievement . |
| 29 | Cos my mother has taken slimming tablets , I can remember a kid , being a kid and my mother always used to take slimming tablets to lose weight . |
| 30 | In the first instance , IXI has taken HP 's drag and drop operation specifications and will incorporate them in its Motif 1.2 and X.desktop products . |