Example sentences of "have taken hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's legislation on industrial relations and trade unions has taken hold . |
| 2 | His package appealed primarily to upscale white suburbanites , but it has taken hold with other candidates and could be merged with Mr Clinton 's platform without either side losing face . |
| 3 | However , as the image of the older consumer as a pensioner on the poverty line has taken hold , the market had been slow to respond to the increasing affluence of older people . |
| 4 | Enterprise The ‘ enterprise culture ’ has taken hold . |
| 5 | Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold , primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule . |
| 6 | It would respond immediately to an increase in carbon monoxide levels , working quicker than current detectors which respond to smoke after a fire has taken hold . |
| 7 | All at once , in one quick movement , he 'd taken hold of her hand and , rising to his feet , was drawing her with him . |
| 8 | Raasay has an atmosphere of independence : had the Macleods ever declared a Republic of Raasay , the place feels as if the idea might have taken hold . |
| 9 | The reforms of the late nineteenth century had taken hold , it would be the self-governing professions , an aristocracy of merit , that would take over much of the social responsibilities of the hereditary peerage . |
| 10 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
| 11 | It had taken hold of Jesus and turned his spirit into a system . |
| 12 | He paused , so that he could shed the sorrow that had taken hold of him . |
| 13 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |
| 14 | In spite of his loathing for her , in spite of the wickedness that had taken hold of him , Beth would persevere . |
| 15 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 16 | Their feet crunched on the brittle undergrowth , leaving sharp footprints where the early morning frost had taken hold . |
| 17 | Before Robyn knew what was happening he had taken hold of her arm and with one swift movement had pulled her inside , closing the door against the pouring rain , and dreary , foreboding skies . |
| 18 | Melissa was not given to premonition but the fear that something had happened to Sybil had taken hold and would not be shaken off . |
| 19 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 20 | The weed had taken hold of the space craft . |
| 21 | He had taken hold of her other wrist now , and was gripping her lower arms firmly in his . |