Example sentences of "[vb -s] taken a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small North Wales town of Wrexham is one example of an authority that has taken a particularly active role in industrial promotion , and figure 3.4 shows one of their many eye-catching advertisements placed in the national press . |
| 2 | But on other occasions ( see box below ) Sit Patrick has taken a more robust view of juries . |
| 3 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 5 | The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy . |
| 6 | In these respects , the EC has taken a very proactive role , guided by the importance of the single market which can not effectively exist if intellectual property rights vary from one Member State to another or if they can be used to restrict the free movement of goods . |
| 7 | because the council has taken a very hard line on the interpretation of legislation and is turning people away . |
| 8 | In one country , Malawi , the President has taken a somewhat extreme stand against ‘ modern methods ’ in education and has forbidden their use . |
| 9 | The Labour leadership has taken a typically defensive position on the politics of the war . |
| 10 | In recent weeks Ankara has taken an increasingly hard line against Syria over the 5,000 Kurdish guerrillas in camps in the Syrian-controlled valley in Lebanon . |
| 11 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 12 | Modern linguistics has taken an entirely different road , rejecting the historicist and evolutionist interests of the mid-nineteenth century perhaps with excessive violence , and to this extent the main development of philology in our period worked out known principles rather than anticipating new ones . |
| 13 | The Italian Government has taken an extremely sporadic interest ever since , and research continues only in fits and starts , though over two million people a year visit the site . |