Example sentences of "has [vb pp] to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 2 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 3 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 4 | ‘ It has come to take you away , ’ said a German who spoke English . |
| 5 | The time has come to take a closer look at that assumption . |
| 6 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 7 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 8 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 9 | THE Wine and Spirit Association has threatened to take formal complaints of environmental health officers ( EHOs ) ‘ deemed to have abused their authority ’ to Government level . |
| 10 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 11 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has threatened to take disciplinary action against Fianna Fail backbenchers who criticise his Northern Ireland policy . |
| 12 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 13 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 14 | None too soon , the Royal Ballet has decided to take notice . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't feel resentful that God has decided to take me before my allotted span . |
| 16 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 17 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 18 | The directors of the company have given the Panel a written assurance that the company 's 1991 accounts will meet the requirements in full and the Panel has decided to take no further action . |
| 19 | ‘ Count de Sciorto has decided to take the wraps off at last , has he ? ’ |
| 20 | Tennis Courts The president of the tennis club has decided to take no action till next session . |
| 21 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 22 | FOLLOWING the completion of his assignment to co-ordinate the integration of Johnson Brothers into the Wedgwood Group management structure , managing director Robert Johnson , has decided to take early retirement from the Company . |
| 23 | Tennis Courts The president of the tennis club has decided to take no action till next session . |
| 24 | Not so the Norwegian Scan Thai Travellers club which has decided to take its most active critics , the Kvinne Fronten ( The Women 's Front ) , to court . |
| 25 | THE Jockey Club has decided to take no disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco as any error of judgment had not resulted from a breach of their rules . |
| 26 | ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , Central News has had to take second place to Project Video ( which we are shooting at the moment ) but we are aiming for October 1989 publication for Central News 1 ( video and book ) and January 1990 for Central News 2 ( video and book ) . |
| 28 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 29 | ACTOR Mel Gibson has had to take his driving test again — for blinking . |
| 30 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |