Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1986 the Research and Statistics branch of the Inner London Education Authority presented a study which had taken three and a half years to compile , based upon the schoolwork of 2000 pupils in 50 randomly selected primary schools . |
| 2 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 3 | Many of the first group , it can be presumed , were married women , while some were teenagers who had taken part-time temporary jobs whilst still at school . |
| 4 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 5 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 6 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 7 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 8 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 9 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 10 | The revolt itself has taken many forms , and issued in a variety of quite different conceptions of what philosophy itself is about . |
| 11 | Well I should think you 'd see that spin attack turn the tables whatever the weather was really , and we 've also got Peter Bradbury who 's taken more wickets in the Cherwell lead than anybody this year , so we 've got three first line County standard off spinners er or rather two off spinners and a left arm spinner . |
| 12 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 13 | After two weeks nobody had taken any . |
| 14 | They are like scraps from a tailor 's cutting room which have taken clumsy wing . |
| 15 | This Report has already mentioned both the composers who have taken these opportunities with happy results for the Church , and the production of much locally written music . |
| 16 | Money also serves to bribe the officials who have to take this decision . |
| 17 | An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her . |
| 18 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 19 | For housing purposes we 've taken large chunks out of our greenbelt , signalling that in terms of regeneration , we do n't have regeneration housing sites . |
| 20 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 21 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 22 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 23 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 24 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 25 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 26 | There is a natural reluctance to make criminals of suppliers who have taken reasonable steps to ensure that their goods accord with modern standards . |
| 27 | ‘ The weather 's not improving , and with us wallowing around like a drunken whale we 've taken heavy seas over the stern . |
| 28 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 29 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 30 | The studies themselves have taken various forms , some directly addressing the issue of creativity and psychosis , others reporting results that bear indirectly on it . |