Example sentences of "[noun sg] have taken the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the snake- and lizard-eating species Trigona hypogea has taken the carrion-eating habit to the extreme , depending on it totally for protein . |
| 2 | While many , including the majority of the Barclay Committee ( 1982 ) , had argued for a unified view of the social work enterprise , Nottinghamshire social services department had taken the unusual decision to separate out elements of the social work role for essentially practical reasons . |
| 3 | The Orb have taken the underground music of previous decades ( Floyd , Tangerine Dream , Can , etc ) and welded it with the fall-out of dance culture to come up with something very strange and potent . |
| 4 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 5 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 6 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 7 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 8 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 9 | True , his editor had taken the surprising step of allowing him to pursue this story all the way to London . |
| 10 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |
| 11 | Although the SQL Access Group has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 12 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 13 | An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week . |
| 14 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 15 | Neither visitor had taken the slightest notice of her . |
| 16 | This tour has taken the National Railway Museum to new places as well as new audiences , and should encourage people to take a trip to York and see the rest of our excellent national collection . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This thought has taken the occasional jaunt through my mind , ’ Ed agreed . |
| 18 | The clinic has taken the unusual step of hiring a dentist to look after those patients who simply ca n't afford to pay for private treatment . |
| 19 | As in Australia , where Strictly Ballroom has taken the astounding sum ( for Australia ) of £4 million , British ballroom dancing is booming with new dancing schools ( tel. 071 609 1386 for details of lessons ) . |
| 20 | However the Doctor has taken the directional unit from the Monk 's TARDIS and with it they get back to Kembel , knowing that only by returning there have they any chance of thwarting the Daleks . |
| 21 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
| 22 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 23 | Although SAG has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 24 | SUNDERLAND Stadium has taken the unprecedented step of offering free beer for punters attending tomorrow 's Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service meeting . |
| 25 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 26 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 27 | Without doubt the most successful of the new Frers 44s on the Solent CHS circuit , culminating in a resounding win in the Round the Island Race — the first time a Swan has taken the coveted Gold Roman Bowl . |
| 28 | Finally , in October 1119 , the pope had taken the decisive step of consecrating the archbishop of York himself , without any reference to Canterbury 's claim , and it was at last clear that unless some quite new influence could be brought to bear on the question , the primatial position of Canterbury as an active instrument of organization was finished . |