Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 | On March 5 the police department undertook to take tough action against the country 's top criminal " godfathers " ( chao phor ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 8 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 9 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 10 | For example 1,530 persons were reevacuated to the Saratov guberniia in early June , despite the fact that the Central Evacuation Department had taken 2,151 refugees away from there in late May . |
| 11 | But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine . |
| 12 | The Dragoons had taken several prisoners and the Covenanters decided to intercept the soldiers and free the captives . |
| 13 | Mr Threlfall , who is still awaiting the letter , said he would investigate , while an ambulance service spokesman said the ambulance had taken 24 minutes to respond . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the ambulance service said 95pc of all emergency calls in rural areas were responded to within 19 minutes , the government guideline , and that this ambulance had taken 24 minutes to arrive . |
| 15 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the 1983 election the Conservatives promised to take fresh powers to curb local recalcitrance . |
| 18 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 19 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 24 | As a result of the decision in Bromley v. GLC the fares were doubled and Camden London Borough Council contemplated taking legal proceedings to challenge their validity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |