Example sentences of "[noun] have take [art] initiative " in BNC.

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1 N C V O has taken the initiative in putting up a number of ideas to the Prime Minister 's and the Home Office , to make this commitment a meaningful one , and a constructive one for voluntary organisations in this country .
2 The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period .
3 Mexico had taken the initiative for this round of talks and had indicated that it would like to see an agreement signed within a year , although ministers were careful not to commit themselves to deadlines .
4 Governors , parents and teachers at Cheddington have taken the initiative and they 're actively promoting the school and what it has to offer to the village .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 The leader has taken the initiative .
8 West Midlands have taken the initiative WITH ‘ TOTAL QUALITY ’ : a development strategy which has a number of objectives :
9 The CAB service has taken the initiative in setting up a system of advisory sessions in which local solicitors , operating on a rota , give free legal advice to clients who have been ‘ booked in ’ to a special session by a local CAB .
10 But the opportunity had not arisen , and Aldrich had taken no initiative in effecting any introduction .
11 Although the disability movement has taken the initiative in articulating this shift , it is a shift which is affecting all sides of the disability issue .
12 Since then the Russian Federation has taken the initiative .
13 Even then , such is Peter 's Jewish prejudice , the Holy Spirit has to take the initiative in falling upon Cornelius and his company before ever Peter had got round to making any appeal to repentance , faith and baptism ( 10:44f ) .
14 In central Asia local commanders had taken the initiative in extending the Empire over vast areas defended only by relatively weak local tribes .
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