Example sentences of "[verb] taken a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 2 | It has taken a closer look at what it pays and what it gets out of its Brussels El Dorado , and it is not happy . |
| 3 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 4 | Batty recognises that he could have taken a sharper look at the derivative nature of the designs or examined some of the problems likely to face the company in the future . |
| 5 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
| 6 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |
| 7 | Taxation appears to have taken a higher fraction of profits in the United States than in some other countries ( around one-half in the USA in 1960 as against about one-third in Japan ) . |
| 8 | Cannon J. , who delivered his judgment in French , seems to have taken a wider view since he reached the same conclusion without reliance on the maxims of the civil law or the Quebec civil code : ‘ On peut dire que son droit est né en même temps qu'elle . ’ |
| 9 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |
| 10 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 11 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 12 | If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop . |
| 13 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 14 | In all , 348/742 ( 46% ; 42.8% to 50.1% ) responders had taken a further qualification after leaving school ( fig 2 ) . |
| 15 | Marked eels from Europe never reach the Sargasso sea , only their counterparts who had taken a shorter journey to the American mainland . |
| 16 | In recent years however , scientists have taken a greater interest in the exciting possibilities of observing animals in their natural surroundings . |