Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] action " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the registration process was boycotted by several opposition groups , which took legal action to challenge the legislation regarding the formation and conduct of political parties . |
| 2 | Equally , governments ' ability to enforce subsequent agreements , will depend both on the existing efficiency and administrative capacity of local States , and on the legitimacy of their taking positive action to defend the global environment , in the eyes of local interest groups . |
| 3 | Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords . |
| 4 | There were those who took direct action against their tormentors . |
| 5 | The next day it was the local people at Loch Eirig , between Glenties and Fintown , who took direct action by blocking Munster Base Metals from boring a hole near the summit of Croaghleighan for fear of water pollution . |
| 6 | Before you take any action . |
| 7 | A To use them you take three actions . |
| 8 | FORMER England defender Gary Stevens has condemned players who take legal action against fellow professionals for ‘ dragging the name of football through the dirt ’ . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , former England defender Gary Stevens condemned players who take legal action against fellow professionals . |
| 10 | For example , it is not just private organisations and individuals who take legal action against auditors . |
| 11 | We took direct action : battles such as the one over access to the Lesbian Sex and Sexual Practice Conference in 1983 , the Feminist Bookfair in 1984 , and the general battle to get the SAD access code used in public listings of events in feminist publications … and much more . |
| 12 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 13 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 14 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 15 | May they take realistic action as well as being open to and expectant for the provision of God . |
| 16 | When industrial interest groups failed to get help , they took political action against the military . |
| 17 | They took prompt action to prevent further distribution . |
| 18 | They took such action as they could to prevent further distribution . |
| 19 | He also threatened to impose guidelines , unless they took voluntary action . |
| 20 | I think if parents are concerned and feel that their child is brighter than his performance shows , then it is time they took some action . |
| 21 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 22 | Luckily , they took positive action straight away . |
| 23 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 24 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 26 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 27 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 28 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 29 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 30 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |