Example sentences of "[noun prp] have taken a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | INTERNATIONALLY-renowned cartoonist Bill Stott has taken a humorous look at the Wirral for his latest book . |
| 6 | Perry has taken a generous hit from his lover and is now nodding off . |
| 7 | Sheila Rowbotham had taken a different route after graduation from Oxford in 1962 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Shah had taken a leading role in this process . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Scientists advising the IWC have taken a similar view . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dean Richards has taken a well-earned holiday in Cyprus — and is unfit , anyway . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The reason for our excursion was that , back in the USA , Beth had taken a leading role in one of the films now showing . |
| 22 | Late in May Andy Norman had taken a small party of athletes to Oslo for a meeting . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 26 | Now Jezrael saw that Zulei had taken a short blade from the coiffure . |
| 27 | The stomach contents and blood tests indicate Mr Marr had taken a fair amount of drink immediately prior to his death on Friday night . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The confrontation between Israeli forces and Hamas had taken a fresh turn earlier on Dec. 13 , when Qassam abducted Sgt.-Maj . |
| 30 | Stopping short of direction intervention , Carter had taken a firm line . |