Example sentences of "[noun] have taken a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Division has taken a leading role in developing research into the assessment of work based learning ( AWBL ) . |
| 2 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 3 | Since 1989 defence has taken a growing share of state spending ; the official defence budget has doubled , keeping well ahead of inflation . |
| 4 | THE IDEA that Britain 's leading position in military technology automatically helps its industrial base has taken a new blow . |
| 5 | The EEC has taken a direct interest in the problem of acid deposition , and in November 1988 a directive was agreed upon by EEC environment ministers concerning the sulphur emissions of large combustion plants . |
| 6 | THE recession has taken a large bite out of profits at Daily Mail Trust , parent of the Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard . |
| 7 | THE recession has taken a heavy toll on UK investment levels , which are crucial to sustainable long-term growth . |
| 8 | THE UK recession has taken a giant bite out of McDonalds , the American burger chain . |
| 9 | The recession on the east coast has taken a heavy toll of banks there . |
| 10 | The scandal of the so-called Dianagate tape has taken a new twist . |
| 11 | At the same time as his hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) is saying that pay beds are to be driven from the health service and given to private companies , Lord Ennals has taken a leading position as a director of a private healthcare company — while remaining a Front-Bench spokesman on health for the Labour party . |
| 12 | However , the weaving of Turkoman rugs has taken a different direction in each country , and there are now certain variations in the overall quality and characteristics of the rugs , as well as in the manner in which they are made . |
| 13 | There is no authority for these propositions , and a leading critic in the United States has taken a contrary view , as did the court in the case of The Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College Inc. , holding that ‘ death resulting from failure to extend proper medical care , where there is a duty of care , is manslaughter . ’ |
| 14 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 15 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 16 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 17 | Thus it seemed , from our work and that of many other labs at about the same time , that brain RNA and protein synthesis were necessary for learning and memory formation , and that the field of biochemical memory research had taken a flying leap forward . |
| 18 | The overall tone of noble criticism remained moderate , yet political consciousness had taken a momentous leap since Nicholas 's death . |
| 19 | The months of dangerous living had taken a savage toll of his health and he had bad conjunctivitis . |
| 20 | The Education Committee has taken a similar decision in principle for teaching staff and is likely to finalise the matter later this summer . |
| 21 | In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks . |
| 22 | INTERNATIONALLY-renowned cartoonist Bill Stott has taken a humorous look at the Wirral for his latest book . |
| 23 | As you will be aware the Council has taken a major initiative to investigate the levels of participation and standards of performance in sport and physical recreation among young people . |
| 24 | ‘ Hitherto , the Council has taken a positive view of franchising , regarding the overall benefits to both the profession and its clients as outweighing the disadvantages which will undoubtedly affect particular firms . |
| 25 | Perry has taken a generous hit from his lover and is now nodding off . |
| 26 | Sheila Rowbotham had taken a different route after graduation from Oxford in 1962 . |
| 27 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 28 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 29 | Though he did not reject the methodology and interests of the ‘ new philosophy ’ , nor attempt to go back beyond it to some earlier view , he thought that , in allowing too much to materialism , philosophy had taken a wrong turn . |
| 30 | His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield . |