Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These actions do not support the allegations that Dista Products failed to take appropriate action on this issue . |
| 2 | But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine . |
| 3 | The Dragoons had taken several prisoners and the Covenanters decided to intercept the soldiers and free the captives . |
| 4 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 5 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 6 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 7 | On Aug. 22 a new company formed by three leading West German companies agreed to take 75 per cent of shares in the East German state-owned electricity concern , with the remaining 25 per cent to be made available to other investors . |
| 8 | At the 1983 election the Conservatives promised to take fresh powers to curb local recalcitrance . |
| 9 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 10 | In awarding penalties for failure to comply with precepts issued under s 51 , TMA 1970 , the General Commissioners had taken all the relevant circumstances into account and the Court would not vary the amounts determined , according to the Chancery Division in Delapage Ltd v Highbury General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 205 . |
| 11 | It appeared that Goble had refused to pay a sum charged against him as owner of some houses , and the Commissioners had taken legal proceedings against him , and he had then submitted and paid , with costs . |
| 12 | For the first time , council officials armed with geiger counters and special meters began to take regular radiation readings every month from sixty points throughout the county . |
| 13 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 14 | Only a small minority ( 5 per cent ) of all temporary workers had taken such jobs because they were tied to a course of training , and most of these were young adults . |
| 15 | Intellec-tually unequipped to understand their position in society , peasants were correspondingly unable to see how to transform it , and their protests tended to take one of two forms : they were either aimed at specific local abuses , or grew into passionate , symbolic outbursts against a society they did not fully comprehend . |
| 16 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 17 | Simmons ( 1978 ) noted that geographers had taken little notice of the wave of concern for environment which peaked about 1972 and he proceeded to argue in favour of a humanistic biogeography ( see p. 124 ) . |
| 18 | By the 1920s other ports had taken much of Gloucester 's corn trade and some of the dock warehouses became used for purposes other than corn storage . |
| 19 | Philip VI 's armies had taken key English positions along the Garonne , and Philip had been promising grants and pensions to those Gascons who would enter his obedience . |
| 20 | Last season , United lost the title after being such odds-on favourites in March that bookmakers refused to take any more bets . |
| 21 | All patients stopped taking any acid inhibitory agents at least two weeks before entering the study and none had received bismuth preparations in the past . |
| 22 | However , in most cases the crucial question will be whether the person seeking to rely on the terms had taken reasonable steps to give the recipient notice of their existence . |
| 23 | Although nine patients had taken oral contraceptives before gall stone dissolution , only one did so afterwards . |
| 24 | Apart from antacids none of the patients had taken any medical treatment during the 14 days before their initial endoscopy . |
| 25 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 26 | In these forms of academic reflection on politics , empirical observations and explanations of the origins and survival of actual elites tended to take second place . |
| 27 | Whilst noting the developments in human rights since the unbanning of political organizations in February 1990 , Amnesty expressed its concern at the number of killings in which security force members appeared to be directly implicated but where the security forces failed to take appropriate action . |
| 28 | But after the vote on Mr Craxi , parliamentary leaders agreed to take all such decisions by a show of hands . |
| 29 | The old oak girders had taken such a clouting |
| 30 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |