Example sentences of "has taken [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Confidence in road building has taken knocks too . |
| 4 | As for certainties , ’ he frowned , ‘ I am a friar as you see , one who has taken vows of poverty but I am also a little of a philosopher and certainties I do not believe to exist . ’ |
| 5 | Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child . |
| 6 | So , in the space of three years , the curious puzzle of the shrinking Sun has taken researchers from the studies of dusty old records locked away in the files of the world 's most famous observatory to speculations about the internal workings of the Sun and a grim warning of the possible climatic future that will confront the next generation of human beings on an already overcrowded planet . |
| 7 | Not only does this represent a great deal of voluntary work , but it also shows how the writer has taken elements from Roald Dahl 's The enormous crocodile , remodelling the book to meet his own needs . |
| 8 | This excludes someone who has taken goods on ‘ sale or return ’ terms , Edwards v. Vaughan ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 9 | My own confessor would absolve you , but he has taken alms and clothing to the hospital and , if I know Father Selwyn , will no doubt spend some time there , helping out … ’ |
| 10 | JULIEN Temple , maker and some say perpetrator of Absolute Beginners , possibly the last ambitious British musical we 'll see on the screen , has taken things easier with Earth Girls Are Easy ( Prince Charles etc , PG ) . |
| 11 | One impatient customer , David Pollard , has taken things into his own hands and is rushing out his own edition in time for the general election . |
| 12 | He has taken things that belong to us . |
| 13 | In recent years , Mr Foyt has taken things a bit easier , skipping some races and training a racing team of younger drivers . |
| 14 | With Excel 4 , Microsoft has taken things a stage further , and used the philosophy of document processing , I feel , in the way the application is structured . |
| 15 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 16 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 17 | Tragically this forecast has come true — although it has taken managers 18 months to realise it . |
| 18 | Indeed , we recently saw that the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) has taken actions to run down the region and its potential . |
| 19 | The company has taken excerpts from the two earlier works , and has put on stage two casts representing the younger and older selves , so that the audience is presented with both a direct view of past actions and a more mellow reflection on the aspirations of other times . |
| 20 | Now , 15 per cent of the village regularly uses the telecottage and at least 20 per cent has taken courses there . ’ |
| 21 | He has taken pupils to America where there are lots of Quaker schools . |
| 22 | This has taken months and months to achieve . |
| 23 | The Athens meeting has taken months to set up . |
| 24 | The trust 's conservation manager , Dr Charles Beardall , said : ‘ Vegetation which has taken centuries to become established is being wiped out in minutes by these vehicles and important bird colonies are being disturbed . ’ |
| 25 | Again , it has taken years of painstaking research to enable us to emulate devices which other creatures make regular use of in their everyday lives . |
| 26 | The combination of a typewriter that has taken years of heavy battering and a piece of guillotined paper of a non-standard size suggest that rather strongly . ’ |
| 27 | It 's overnight success though that has taken years of dedication to achieve . |
| 28 | It 's a difficult thing , this has taken years to get objectives and every time the old . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher also has taken risks with collective responsibility . |
| 30 | admits he has taken risks to make progress . |