Example sentences of "[noun prp] have take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's confident , too , claiming : ‘ Benn has taken a great risk in fighting me because , like Ruddock , he is very predictable and I aim to exploit his lack of variety . |
| 32 | The national energy crisis in the Philippines has taken a new turn with President Fidel Ramos being granted emergency powers to charge higher rates for electricity , after the World Bank suspended a $250 million loan to the state-owned National Power Corporation . |
| 33 | The reason for our excursion was that , back in the USA , Beth had taken a leading role in one of the films now showing . |
| 34 | Late in May Andy Norman had taken a small party of athletes to Oslo for a meeting . |
| 35 | On June 25 President de Klerk had taken the unprecedented step of effectively declaring an official day of mourning , when he announced that the government would allow its employees to attend the funeral and " related mourning services " on June 29 and called on the private sector to do likewise . |
| 36 | Their ambition increased by the movement , until all forty-one were in violent motion , so violent that the Bowl began to move across the table , and Oscar had to take a firm hold of it to keep it from turning over . |
| 37 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 38 | She approached by the same route she and Beador had taken the previous day . |
| 39 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 40 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 41 | Nora Simpson had taken the early bus to Chollerton to do her weekend shopping . |
| 42 | Was I not good enough , that Jacob had to take an extra wife , a mere servant at that ? |
| 43 | He had completely lost his temper when he had heard the news that Clasper had taken the giant Merseyside plant out on strike . |
| 44 | His mother , whom he had adored , had died when he was sixteen and his father had then married a much younger woman to whom Freddie had taken an instant dislike . |
| 45 | Now Jezrael saw that Zulei had taken a short blade from the coiffure . |
| 46 | The stomach contents and blood tests indicate Mr Marr had taken a fair amount of drink immediately prior to his death on Friday night . ’ |
| 47 | For over a decade the medical and nursing professions in Britain have taken a leading role in calling for a clearer national commitment to tackling social inequalities in health . |
| 48 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 49 | Realising that an individually tailored , quality service at a competitive cost could no longer be fully satisfied by a traditional branch network , Midland has taken the unique step of establishing 13 District Service Centres ( DSCs ) to process cheques centrally . |
| 50 | The confrontation between Israeli forces and Hamas had taken a fresh turn earlier on Dec. 13 , when Qassam abducted Sgt.-Maj . |
| 51 | Charles had taken an active interest from the start . |
| 52 | Stopping short of direction intervention , Carter had taken a firm line . |
| 53 | WEN have taken the important step in their book too by outlining the basics of organic chemistry . |
| 54 | Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down . |
| 55 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 56 | This was the occasion for further expressions of friendship on the part of the two sovereigns , for Queen Victoria had taken a personal interest in the Empress 's accouchement and had sent Lady Ely , one of her ladies-in-waiting , to be present at the birth . |
| 57 | Colbeck died in Catford 18 October 1930 , his exertions in the Antarctic having taken a considerable toll . |
| 58 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 59 | In a report to the 15th conference of the Kosovo LC on Nov. 9 , 1989 , Rahman Morina , its president , said that the struggle in Kosovo had taken a new turn and accused people of trying to encourage processes aimed at destroying Yugoslavia and at changing its federal system . |
| 60 | In fact , the NRPB had taken the unusual step in 1987 of moving ahead of the notoriously conservative International Commission on Radiological Protection , which provides the generally accepted international standards , and had recommended dramatically reduced radiation dose limits both for people living near nuclear power stations and those working inside them . |