Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [adj] action " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signing the convention will not oblige the 27 Caribbean nations to take any action . |
| 2 | And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity . |
| 3 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
| 4 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 5 | In the same year the US Navy began to envisage co-operation with the Royal Navy if the Yugoslavs took aggressive action in the Adriatic . |
| 6 | The law has some part to play in stimulating directors to take appropriate action in these areas by imposing liability where loss can be attributed to a failure on the part of the board to ensure that the company is equipped with an adequate organisational structure . |
| 7 | Our Commission of Human Rights will help individuals take legal action in cases of discrimination . |
| 8 | The collapse of the Dutch parent company of Leyland Daf left thousands of jobs in jeopardy whilst the Belgian Dutch governments took immediate action to try to ensure the survival of plants in their countries , our government sat back and waited to see if another chunk of British manufacturing would disappear . |
| 9 | The pilots took evasive action which tipped men and equipment all over the place . |
| 10 | The medium form of state autonomy occurs when state officials take effective action to alter society 's preferences — to persuade a majority of social groups to want what governing elites want , before they commit policy in line with governing elite preferences . |
| 11 | We will set up a Commission of Human Rights to assist individuals to take legal action in cases of discrimination or other breaches of the rights guaranteed in the Convention . |
| 12 | On the hon. Gentleman 's first question , he will understand that I have no power to order banks to take particular actions . |
| 13 | Press speculation over plans by Western allies to take military action against Iraq to force compliance intensified after US officials confirmed on March 13 that the US aircraft carrier America had entered the Gulf to send a " clear signal " to President Saddam Hussein . |
| 14 | Furthermore , landlords and managing agents were said to use a range of ‘ sharp practices ’ to circumvent the law or to stop or reduce the likelihood of tenants taking legal action . |
| 15 | Cohen , March and Olsen ( 1972 ) provided a stark contrast to the planning-oriented literature on organization design and decision making with their ‘ garbage-can model ’ , which in essence claims that people and systems in organizations were in possession of solutions to problems and predispositions to take certain actions when problems or specific situations arise . |
| 16 | A better way might be for house officers to take collective action through their trade union representatives , and the BMA should take the lead in providing this service . |
| 17 | The Scheme makes no difference to an employee 's rights to take legal action , and the Company accepts no liability . |
| 18 | Where the peace is threatened , the law confers upon the constable a very wide range of powers to take preventive action . |
| 19 | From June onwards French farmers driven to the brink of bankruptcy by falling meat prices took violent action to try to stop imports of foreign lamb and beef , mainly from the United Kingdom but also from Belgium , the Netherlands and West Germany . |
| 20 | In Express and Star v. National Graphical Association , the plaintiff newspapers obtained an interim injunction requiring the union to withdraw a direction to their members to take industrial action . |
| 21 | However , before we could recommend our members to take industrial action we would have to hold a ballot . ’ |
| 22 | Thank you , yes , I think in a course of er , er explanation that 's been given this morning , there was a reference to H G V eight diversion , now I 'm concerned that if in fact that means that er H G Vs are increasingly using the route through Culford there are two very severe right angle bends on that road and I should erm like to see the police take some action to persuade H G V to ban that route er I mean can we do a ban on the early section of it with in particular to like angle bends are ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is unusual that police took such action , but by law they are fully covered to do that . ’ |
| 24 | The baseball fan at the beginning of the century — free of the possibly inhibiting influence of women spectators and close enough to the playing field in those tiny ball parks to take immediate action against erring players or umpires — was , by all accounts , an abysmal churl . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale , although in many cases it is open to private individuals to prosecute for breach of the criminal law , it is generally thought , for various reasons , that usually it is best for public prosecutors to take such action . |
| 26 | I mean it 's the difference between taking effective action where one can and being able to decide where one can take or where one can encourage children to take effective action . |
| 27 | They say they now want their employers to take immediate action . |
| 28 | Growing concern about passive smoking and recent signals from organisations like the Health and Safety Executive and Lothian Health Board have pointed the way for employers to take positive action to protect non-smokers whilst at work in enclosed areas . |
| 29 | The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action . |
| 30 | The apparent reluctant of Education Authorities to take firm action against sex abuse is , in a way , understandable . |