Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 2 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 3 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 4 | None had any complicating medical condition or previous history of gastric surgery , or had taken antibiotics or bismuth preparations in the previous six months . |
| 5 | None was receiving antibiotics or had taken acid inhibitory agents within the previous week . |
| 6 | Considering geography as the description of the changes that take place or have taken place in or at the surface of the earth Linton ( 1965 ) suggested that any changes which occur in the real world imply that work has been done and energy expended . |
| 7 | But her mind still works only dimly , and she can not make the connection now , she must trudge forward , following the one impulse that has taken possession of her : to escape . |
| 8 | It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings ' water systems . |
| 9 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 10 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 11 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 12 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 13 | Chilcote and Edelstein argue that it is because of the type of industrialisation that has taken place . |
| 14 | Ordinary pumice , by contrast , shows a wide range in density , depending upon the degree of vesiculation that has taken place in the magma , but it is still nothing more than a solidified rock froth . |
| 15 | These supporting stems are about 12 inches tall and indicate the measure of erosion that has taken place in the limestone platforms since their foreign visitors settled upon them . |
| 16 | The prime factor was ( and still is ) the vast expansion of paper note issues ( and bank deposits ) that has taken place in relation to world gold stocks . |
| 17 | The desacralization of nature that has taken place in the West may be attributed to the influence of Christianity . |
| 18 | The third factor which argues against a low rate of inflation coming through is the extent of the devaluation that has taken place so far . |
| 19 | Many visitors to Quainton Road expressed surprise at the amount of change that has taken place at the Centre over the last few years . |
| 20 | The more exploration of BSL learning that has taken place , the more relevant second language learning research becomes . |
| 21 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 22 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 23 | The major factors behind the change that has taken place are economic and industrial development . |
| 24 | The completeness of the fusion that has taken place varies greatly in different orders of insects , and indications of the original paired condition are clearly seen among the lower orders . |
| 25 | The second major change to the welfare state that has taken place since 1979 has been the abolition of the earnings-related supplements ( ERS ) . |
| 26 | His complaint is a more general one about the lack of respect for custom and the gradual constriction of his world that has taken place in fifty years . |
| 27 | There is also an increasing concern for the curriculum among teachers in other countries , although they often operate in more centralised education systems and have not been ‘ involved ’ in the kind of debate that has taken place in England and Wales . |
| 28 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |
| 29 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 30 | When parents exclude children from their own grief it can make the child feel that the awful event that has taken place is a punishment for which they are in part responsible . |