Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites .
2 Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast .
3 He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD .
4 I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood .
5 She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me .
6 ‘ I can not comment any further , except to say that I have taken legal advice on this matter . ’
7 ‘ I recommended the player through a contact , so I have taken some flak from my management team .
8 For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act .
9 She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement .
10 JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK .
11 John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened .
12 Chief executive Frank Burns said : ‘ We would have had to spend 50pc of the cost on fire precautions in any case , so we have taken this opportunity to provide what is the most important building in Wirral with an entrance that gives patients , staff and visitors a welcoming and efficient first impression . ’
13 Let's not have sniping from the Tory benches once we 've taken this decision .
14 But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations .
15 Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’
16 Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible .
17 By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about .
18 No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' .
19 And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact .
20 Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ?
21 But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives .
22 Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship .
23 Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ?
24 Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all .
25 They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now .
26 Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here .
27 Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field .
28 Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m .
29 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 .
30 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 .
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