Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to take [adj] [noun] " 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 | Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers ' decisions would the Code be discredited — as a paper tiger . |
| 3 | Addressed here are the socially organized ways in which dirty water comes to be noticed and defined as a pollution , thereby creating a case about which an enforcement agent has to take some action . |
| 4 | On March 5 the police department undertook to take tough action against the country 's top criminal " godfathers " ( chao phor ) . |
| 5 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 6 | On Saturday 16 February SPAG decided to take legal proceedings against Mogul , as they feared the company would continue to do nothing to rectify the situation . |
| 7 | In the face of such concerted action it was clear that the Library Association had to take strong action on behalf of its members who , individually , could have little chance of opposing the ban . |
| 8 | At the 1983 election the Conservatives promised to take fresh powers to curb local recalcitrance . |
| 9 | THE Mervyn Brown Memorial Game organising committee wishes to take this opportunity to thank the soccer public throughout the province for the tremendous support they gave to this memorable occasion and for the spontaneous and genuine reception accorded to both teams prior to the commencement of the game . |
| 10 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 11 | By this time , the climate in the Council was increasingly hostile to tramways , and the Management had to take desperate measures to secure the future of the Promenade and Fleetwood lines . |
| 12 | Tied in by their own dogma , the Conservatives refuse to take any steps to build a genuine base for sustained economic growth . |
| 13 | In order to establish the defence , the defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 14 | The defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 15 | Why do workers prefer to take real wage cuts in the form of price rises ? |
| 16 | The structure of the skull , jaws , and gills of vertebrates has been interpreted , after a long and sophisticated study , as a filter-feeding device modified to take larger prey , fused to a bony box protecting the brain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Althusser seems to take this view when he argues that |
| 19 | Consequently , the Civil Justice Review recommended that there should be a single costs regime for High Court and County Court actions , except for county court actions below £3,000 , since in such smaller cases fixed costs should be attractive and there would be less desire to seek to take such actions in the High Court . |
| 20 | During the theatre festival , the author liked to take early-morning walks , and every day when he left his hotel Dustin would be waiting for him . |
| 21 | I thought that was terrific , but the sergeant in charge had to take 5 months over paperwork to get them into court . |
| 22 | She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut . |
| 23 | As soon as a director decides to take active steps towards a management buy-out of his company , he should approach the board . |
| 24 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 25 | The section makes it dangerous for a director to be unaware of the company 's financial position , since liability may ensue where a director fails to take appropriate action to ‘ minimise the potential loss to the company 's creditors ’ once it would have been apparent to a properly informed director that the company was heading for liquidation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Robert Wiseman Dairies , the milk processor and distributor which is widely recognised by its distinctive black and white corporate identity , beat rival Yarrow Shipbuilders to take first prize in the category for large manufacturing companies . |
| 28 | the question of what balance can be attained in a book is a familiar problem to literary critics , who are divided in their views into at least two camps , one favouring attention being paid mostly to the text itself , while the other prefers to take other questions into account , including the effect the writer 's life may have on the text . |
| 29 | How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ? |
| 30 | Jennifer Capriati yesterday smashed Wimbledon champion Steffi Graf to take Olympic gold . |