Example sentences of "have 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 | Through time wine has taken a much larger share of the domestic market . |
| 9 | In one country , Malawi , the President has taken a somewhat extreme stand against ‘ modern methods ’ in education and has forbidden their use . |
| 10 | The Labour leadership has taken a typically defensive position on the politics of the war . |
| 11 | They clearly felt he should have taken a more manly approach to the brain tumour . |
| 12 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 13 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 14 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 15 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 16 | So what I 've tried to show diagrammatically is that , we start ninety four , ninety five with plans in place , shown by the vertical dotted line on the graph , a number of those will die or leave the system for other reasons during the year , and we 've taken a fairly optimistic view I would say , erm , optimistic in the financial sense , that a significant number of those will leave the system during the year . |
| 17 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 18 | So I think we 've taken a more enlightened attitude in that sense . |
| 19 | If the bullet had taken a slightly different path the results would have been catastrophic , ’ said Mr Watson of Homerton Hospital . |
| 20 | The journey , despite the distance between London and the prison , had taken a surprisingly short time . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , relieved that the conversation had taken a less intimate turn . |
| 22 | After the SUPPLYKITS flotation , the analysts , investors , and competitors had taken a much closer look at the company . |
| 23 | Even further back , in Charles II 's reign , the Compton ecclesiastical census of 1676 had suggested that Dissenters then formed only 4 per cent of the nation at large , though in some communities Dissent had taken a much stronger hold . |
| 24 | Donovan had taken a fairly low-key approach , refusing to accept the view ( promulgated by the CBI ) that legal restrictions on unofficial strikes would achieve the desired industrial peace , but Wilson and Barbara Castle convinced themselves that penal sanctions were necessary and justified , and in accordance with public opinion . |
| 25 | She had taken a very few steps when she heard someone running up behind her . |
| 26 | The Clarion ( 24 December 1898 ) seemed to think that the Home Secretary 's intransigence was some kind of Malthusian plot : In another discussion of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ The Daily Graphic ( 15 February 1898 ) had taken a more traditional line , recommending more traditional remedies : ‘ If birching and short sentences will not stop it , then more birching and longer sentences will have to be tried . ’ |
| 27 | Claire joined the firm from Bristol Polytechnic , where she studied accounting and finance , but Sandra had taken a more indirect route . |
| 28 | The career of Eric Williams , in the meantime , had taken a more propitious turn . |
| 29 | It was also proposed that the WEU should move its secretariat from London to Brussels , in order to reinforce its links with the EC , but no decision was expected until the question of political union in the EC had taken a more definitive shape ( the Maastricht summit of the EC 's European Council being scheduled to agree on this in December 1991 ) . |
| 30 | It is not alone in this view : most City economists have taken a distinctly sceptical stance on the Red Book 's projections . |