Example sentences of "have taken care [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike Mr Chirac during that earlier experiment , Mr Balladur has taken care to consult Mr Mitterrand regularly .
2 Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute .
3 It was ridiculous to be upset at all , since she had herself intended to tell Nick she was married as soon as she saw him , or to make sure he saw her left hand on which today she had taken care to wear her wedding ring .
4 The city authorities had taken care to use the day to process certain cases in the court .
5 I agree that such a tax system based on the capital value of houses , on a national banding system , would be unfair unless we had taken care to provide for compressed rates of taxation .
6 In addition to which , Kenamun had taken care to keep them waiting an hour in an unventilated antechamber before seeing them .
7 He had taken care to tell no one save Felicity where he was staying .
8 The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner .
9 While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile .
10 Reporters and Panels had taken care to concentrate on the actualities rather than technicalities .
11 Later studies have taken care to define the diabetic population studied in terms of the presence or absence of complications .
12 They have taken care to combine their excellent tastes with good quality materials to ensure a pleasing outcome .
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