Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On March 5 the police department undertook to take tough action against the country 's top criminal " godfathers " ( chao phor ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I thought that was terrific , but the sergeant in charge had to take 5 months over paperwork to get them into court . |
| 17 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 18 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 19 | Their anger began to take political form . |
| 20 | Towards the end of the century their anger began to take political form . |
| 21 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |
| 22 | It was true that the round had taken 4½ hours , but this included time wasted by crowd interference and inadequate marshalling arrangements . |
| 23 | It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound . |
| 24 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 25 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 26 | The man appeared to take violent exception to a Liverpool football t-shirt Terry was wearing . |
| 27 | The government appeared to take little interest in the schemes of the Family Endowment Society . |
| 28 | Speaking in Skelton , in the marginal Langbaurgh constituency , he said the Government had taken tough measures against the scourge of car crime . |
| 29 | But the government had taken elaborate precautions to crush any resistance . |
| 30 | The Heath government had taken statutory controls over prices , incomes , and dividends and its 1972 Industry Act permitted large-scale state intervention in industry . |