Example sentences of "[noun] have taken [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshack has taken pains to play down the hard-man image he brought from San Sebastian , swearing that the extra training ordered after the poor performance at Castellon was not a punishment . |
| 2 | Sparc 811 has no customers yet but both Xerox PARC and SMILE , the Sparc Macrocell and Interface Library Elements project inside Europe 's Esprit III programme have taken licences to create Tsunami derivatives . |
| 3 | If Talkin Loud has been criticised in the past for not saying much at all , then the fact that storming releases in 1992 from the Young Disciples and Tammy Payne have taken months to see record shop racks has n't helped . |
| 4 | The Athens meeting has taken months to set up . |
| 5 | ’ — Which is why I imagine Burun has taken steps to remind Artai that it is the ulus of the Kha-Khan to be the Lord of the Earth , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In recent years the head offices of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have taken steps to increase their influence on this process , and have aroused the resentment of local favourites whose chances of nomination have been jeopardised by this " interference " . |
| 7 | However , in a concession to a veto threat delivered by US President George Bush , Congress allowed Bush the authority to restore the aid programme if he could certify " that the government of Jordan has taken steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East , or that furnishing assistance to Jordan would be beneficial to the peace process in the Middle East " . |
| 8 | The United States House of Representatives on June 20 voted by 410 to eight to cut off military aid to Jordan worth US$27,000,000 , pending assurances that " the government of Jordan has taken steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East " [ see p. 38119 ] . |
| 9 | It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country . |
| 10 | Georgia had taken pills to settle her stomach , but she was still throwing up every hour . |
| 11 | For example , it is known that attempts usually follow acute and serious interpersonal conflict , that chronic difficulties and social problems are common , and that a large proportion of patients have taken steps to gain help from their family doctors before the attempt . |
| 12 | The Government has taken steps to improve court procedures but it has steadfastly refused to introduce a legal right to interest . |
| 13 | Since that time central government has taken steps to reduce the proportion of local expenditure it funds . |
| 14 | Ahead of the Commission 's recommendations , the Law Society has taken steps to guarantee the competence of police station advice given by unqualified staff by producing a scheme which will provide comprehensive training for solicitor 's representatives , followed by a test which they will have to pass in order to continue to be paid for the work by the Legal Aid Board . |
| 15 | The resources of the Communications Compound would be stretched to the limit , sending instantaneous pictures by satellite to destinations which Marco Polo and Captain Cook had taken years to reach . |
| 16 | The authorities have taken pains to represent Niyogi 's murder as a factional fight between extremists . |
| 17 | He will at a very early stage have taken steps to preserve evidence , possibly by photographic and other means , of an ephemeral or fleeting nature such as ice ( if he is lucky the temperature on the ground since the crash could still be below freezing ) , or fuel leaking away from a damaged tank or fuel filter , or soot deposits indicative of fire in the air which could be washed away by rain or other disturbance . |