Example sentences of "[verb] it take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 2 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 3 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 4 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 5 | health , for example , may be as much a demand-side as a supply-side factor through social pressures on those who suffer it to take early retirement at a time of general contraction . |
| 6 | Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards . |