Example sentences of "[noun prp] have take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EEC has taken a direct interest in the problem of acid deposition , and in November 1988 a directive was agreed upon by EEC environment ministers concerning the sulphur emissions of large combustion plants . |
| 2 | At the same time as his hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) is saying that pay beds are to be driven from the health service and given to private companies , Lord Ennals has taken a leading position as a director of a private healthcare company — while remaining a Front-Bench spokesman on health for the Labour party . |
| 3 | There is no authority for these propositions , and a leading critic in the United States has taken a contrary view , as did the court in the case of The Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College Inc. , holding that ‘ death resulting from failure to extend proper medical care , where there is a duty of care , is manslaughter . ’ |
| 4 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 5 | No one should get the impression from this that Rotherham had taken the gay community to its bosom . |
| 6 | In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks . |
| 7 | INTERNATIONALLY-renowned cartoonist Bill Stott has taken a humorous look at the Wirral for his latest book . |
| 8 | Perry has taken a generous hit from his lover and is now nodding off . |
| 9 | Sheila Rowbotham had taken a different route after graduation from Oxford in 1962 . |
| 10 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 11 | As at Lord 's , it was Logie and Dujon who got the runs , but with Foster taking 5 for 64 they were all out for 183 , the first time England had taken a first-innings lead since the Lord 's game of 1984 . |
| 12 | England have taken a well-earned break after four games in the past three weeks , and with Platt proving his recovery from an ankle injury with the opening goal against Brazil on Sunday in Washington , manager Graham Taylor should be able to pick from a full squad . |
| 13 | Now the referee 's given it and what we reckon here is Rozario 's taken the free kick to Gemmell but Gemmell is now offside . |
| 14 | AFTER working on opposite sides in the American presidential election , James Corville and his wife Mary Matalin have taken a romantic trip on the Orient Express from Paris to Venice . |
| 15 | Nissan has taken the whole thing one step further with its series of weird and cute limited production models . |
| 16 | So far , however , Liffe has taken the modest route of allowing access to APT through any authorised carrier , such as Telerate , with whom agreement was announced yesterday . |
| 17 | The Shah had taken a leading role in this process . |
| 18 | In early November Coleridge and the Wordsworths , whose deep and intuitive friendship had begun by now to exclude not only Sara but even Tom Poole , set out on the road to Porlock which Coleridge had taken the previous month . |
| 19 | The third file concerned a boy Berdichev had taken a personal interest in ; a Clayborn child from the Recruitment Project for whom Berdichev had paid the extraordinary sum of ten million yuan . |
| 20 | Scientists advising the IWC have taken a similar view . |
| 21 | Kingston upon Thames SSD has taken a different route , targeting part of its homecare service on people with less complex or intensive needs , particularly clients needing household cleaning . |
| 22 | KOP legend Ray Kennedy has taken the heartbreaking decision to sell his prized collection of soccer memorabilia . |
| 23 | Dean Richards has taken a well-earned holiday in Cyprus — and is unfit , anyway . |
| 24 | White South Africa had taken the black men , herded them into workers ' barracks and townships , kept them supplied with beer and prostitutes , then sent them back home with their rand , their tuberculosis and their venereal disease . |
| 25 | Giugiaro had taken the unusual step of displaying a chassis too , letting the world see the high standard of carbon-fibre work in his monocoque , the cockpit-adjustable anti-roll bars and the massive 14ins drilled racing disc brakes . |
| 26 | By this period ( 1987–8 ) , the DHSS had taken the unusual step of organizing an elaborate exercise of disseminating the results of the research studies , using the summarizing ‘ pink book ’ ( DHSS , 1985b ) as a focus for examining local policy and practice . |
| 27 | Jinny had taken the little girls home and Sarah and Mrs Bennet left . |
| 28 | The previous year the NAM had taken a direct initiative over the war when India 's prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , acting as NAM chairman , sent a peace mission to the Gulf . |
| 29 | In lead : President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has taken a big lead in Iran 's presidential election , winning nearly 70% of the votes counted , according to the first partial results issued by the interior ministry today . |
| 30 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |