Example sentences of "which took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Italy 's present ‘ polyfunctional ’ banking system , which took shape in the 1980s , commercial-bank holding companies are forbidden from , for example , doing factoring or leasing . |
| 2 | The Ringstrasse , which took shape in the 1860s and 1870s , was Vienna 's counterpart of Haussmann 's boulevards . |
| 3 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 4 | The bitter attacks on Germany by the fledgling but rapidly developing Russian press , after the Berlin settlement of 1878 had so disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans , helped to push Bismarck towards the alliance with the Habsburg empire which took shape in 1879 . |
| 5 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 6 | That was but one of the great waves of migration which took Europeans to the New World , Africa , and Asia in the period . |
| 7 | On the other hand , there were ‘ Romantic ’ straws in the wind : strong personalities who directed without instrument ( in Berlin , J.F. Reichardt ; for Paris , see below ) ; and the move towards an ‘ international ’ concert repertory which took responsibility away from the keyboardist ( by tradition , the composer ) and placed it with the violin leader . |
| 8 | During the 1520s , this theological orthodoxy came under challenge throughout Europe from the new ideas of the continental reformers , Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli , both of whom claimed that the truth of their new theology was evident from scripture and based upon a biblical authority which took precedence over tradition and papal decree . |
| 9 | Yet within nine months of taking office the Government had introduced a New Towns Bill , which took precedence over the promised measure on compensation and betterment ( Cullingworth , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | In that , he took the box of his instruments , and the pills and plasters and powders which took Nicholas and himself half their sleeping time to boil , to mix and to stamp . |
| 11 | As the party which took Britain into NATO , Labour will base its defence policies on UK membership of the alliance . |
| 12 | It is no coincidence or mistake that it was the Conservative party that applied to take Britain into the Community , and which took Britain in . |
| 13 | Project , which took child safety as its main theme . |
| 14 | It was noticeable that the two pictures which took pride of place on Diana 's bedside dressing-table were not of her family but of her favourite hamsters , Little Black Muff and Little Black Puff . |
| 15 | The full results of the survey , which was carried out by Inform Corporation , are only being made available to the 587 firms which took part . |
| 16 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 17 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 18 | There 's nothing wrong with these children at Eastcombe Primary School in Gloucestershire — one of 111 schools which took part in the project over the last 3 years . |
| 19 | The view from many of the schools which took part , is that it tells only a fraction of the story . |
| 20 | BATTLE honours are to be awarded to ships , regiments and squadrons of the three services which took part in the Gulf War , the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , announced yesterday . |
| 21 | Army regiments and Army Air Corps units which took part in the campaign will be able to claim the general theatre honour Gulf 1991 together with battle honours ‘ Wadi Al Batin ’ and ‘ Western Iraq ’ . |
| 22 | Squadrons which took part in the conflict will be selected by the Air Force Board for recommendation to the Queen . |
| 23 | Britain is to send four ships which took part in the Falklands War , to carry the desert rats to the Gulf : Sir Tristram , Sir Galahad , Sir Bevedere and er Sir Bedevere and Sir Percival are expected to start picking up tanks from West Germany in the next few weeks . |
| 24 | It had been a long , tiring day … first this big house to be cleaned , then the uphill trek to church and Sunday service ; next came the lunch , which took hours to prepare and only minutes to devour ; this was followed by the inevitable mountain of washing up . |
| 25 | The only way Eric could telephone me was by using a military line via Bologna and Vienna , which took hours on end , and even when he 'd got through , our voices were often unintelligible . |
| 26 | In the early part of the period these were essentially landowners , religious functionaries and bureaucrats , but as the city 's function gradually changed to accommodate the new political and economic realities , a new ‘ modern entrepreneurial ’ elite emerged which took advantage of the new circumstances and in particular of the boom conditions of the late 1930s . |
| 27 | Every few yards there were depressions filled with sand , each of which took minutes to cross . |
| 28 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 29 | Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans have escaped the grip of hunger thanks to the ceasefire , which took hold last November , and to the good rains that have at last broken a severe drought . |
| 30 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |