Example sentences of "taken an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 2 | Certainly , such peace as prevailed owed an immense amount to Jones 's personal stature in the movement , as one of the old-style union leaders who had , nevertheless , taken an outward-looking and creative role in trying to relate union demands to a wider pattern of economic stability and also , incidentally , the wellbeing of a Labour government . |
| 3 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 4 | Those MPs of a so-called ‘ dry ’ tendency have regarded the control of inflation via a tight rein on the money supply as the primary objective of a government 's economic policy , favoured free-market policies and a reduction of state ownership and spending , and taken an authoritarian line on law and order and many social issues . |
| 5 | Indeed , the SL 's overall economy would have been better still had it not taken an unusually dim view of performance testing , its consumption plunging to just 14.4mpg while at Millbrook . |
| 6 | They had taken an occasional coffee together after shopping , but this was a new experience . |
| 7 | Charles had taken an active interest from the start . |
| 8 | The negotiations with the American company that will run the facility after the Games have taken an inordinate amount of time by British standards , though not by American , and the completion date is now May 10 , 1991 , barely two months before the opening ceremony . |
| 9 | Two High Court judges ruled that a Department of Social Security assessment officer had taken an ‘ erroneous ’ view of the regulations which govern the means test for legal aid . |
| 10 | The young men in the parliament have taken an oath of allegiance to the Lithuanian state , swearing to defend it to the death . |
| 11 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 12 | ‘ Some of these ladies may never have taken an exam in their lives , ’ says Sue , ‘ and getting the certificate does a lot in terms of confidence building . |
| 13 | I have long taken an interest in nineteenth-century history . ’ |
| 14 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 15 | After City had taken an early lead with a powerful header from full-back Hill , McMahon split open the Leeds defence with a precise ball from which Sheron turned the course of the match with a 34th-minute strike . |
| 16 | The Italian Government has taken an extremely sporadic interest ever since , and research continues only in fits and starts , though over two million people a year visit the site . |
| 17 | In recent weeks Ankara has taken an increasingly hard line against Syria over the 5,000 Kurdish guerrillas in camps in the Syrian-controlled valley in Lebanon . |
| 18 | While some sailors said they had taken an oath to the Soviet Union and would never take another , others said they would serve in any fleet as long as the pay was right . |
| 19 | In the course of this chapter I have taken an historical perspective upon the nature of religious belief , looking in particular at writers from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries . |
| 20 | Samuel Richardson , though not a subscriber to the first volume , had taken an interest in Leapor , who was in his eyes perhaps a more tragic Pamela . |
| 21 | Jonathan Swift , despite his attitude toward Stephen Duck , had already taken an interest in Constantia Grierson who had trained as a midwife . |
| 22 | In the last moments of the retreat , Eachuin Odhar had taken an arrow deep in the side of his neck , and though he could move about and gesture to organise their camp , he could n't speak . |
| 23 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
| 24 | And Peter Oosterhuis had taken an eight or nine there some time earlier ! |
| 25 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 26 | Lillie next appears in the story addressing the 1965 meeting of the International Whaling Commission which had taken an intermittent and desultory interest in so-called humane killing of whales . |
| 27 | What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect . |
| 28 | In interpreting the studies by Vonk and by Garnham & Oakhill we have taken an effect of gender cue to indicate name mapping and one of congruity with bias to indicate role mapping . |
| 29 | The resulting frustration may be , in part , why they have taken an overdose . |
| 30 | Janet , a 14-year-old schoolgirl , had taken an overdose of paracetamol in circumstances which suggested low suicidal intent . |