Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] taken the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest reduction has taken the PC-420X a 20MHz 80486SX computer to under £1,000. ( 081 452 4444 . ) |
| 2 | William Bullock 's description being comprehensive , the writer has taken the liberty of adapting this to include details from the French National Archives . |
| 3 | Davies ' description provides additional information and the writer has taken the liberty to amalgamate those which concern the 6th Work : |
| 4 | But the snake- and lizard-eating species Trigona hypogea has taken the carrion-eating habit to the extreme , depending on it totally for protein . |
| 5 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 6 | It is the job of conductors to reset the points after their car has taken the junction . |
| 7 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 8 | While many , including the majority of the Barclay Committee ( 1982 ) , had argued for a unified view of the social work enterprise , Nottinghamshire social services department had taken the unusual decision to separate out elements of the social work role for essentially practical reasons . |
| 9 | Labour had taken the election manifesto of 1983 — the so-called ‘ longest suicide note in history ’ — and rewritten it on the basis of what it thought the people did n't want . |
| 10 | When he looked back , the Punk had taken the woman 's straw hat off and looked as if he might be about to eat it . |
| 11 | The Council 's first President had taken the position extremely seriously , and in addition to his ceremonial duties had invited the Chairman and Chief Officer at regular intervals , often twice a year , to meet with him , to discuss matters of interest to him , and to bring him up to date on the Council 's activities . |
| 12 | Half an hour gone the captain has an injury but his side have taken the lead . |
| 13 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 14 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 15 | The Orb have taken the underground music of previous decades ( Floyd , Tangerine Dream , Can , etc ) and welded it with the fall-out of dance culture to come up with something very strange and potent . |
| 16 | The formal procedures of the House have not , so far , had to be changed following the introduction of television , and the Procedure Committee has taken the view that , unless a powerful case can be made to the contrary , it is not for the House to adapt to televising . |
| 17 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 18 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 19 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 20 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |
| 21 | Westminster City Council has taken the initiative and published its own code of practice for caterers on the implications of the Food Safety Act 1990 . |
| 22 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 23 | In its first declared objective for sending troops , i.e. the protection of Saudi Arabia against possible Iraqi invasion , the USA found legitimacy under Article 51 of the UN Charter which affirmed " the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence , if an armed attack occurs against a member of the organization , until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain peace and international security " . |
| 24 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 25 | Thankfully only minor shunts so far and the tow bar has taken the impacts . |
| 26 | With its enthusiasm for acronyms , the exchange has taken the ‘ Taurus ’ title for its computerised settlement masterplan from the full title of the scheme , the ponderously named Transfer and Automated Registration of Uncertificated Stock system . |
| 27 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 28 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 29 | True , his editor had taken the surprising step of allowing him to pursue this story all the way to London . |
| 30 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |