Example sentences of "has taken shape " in BNC.

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1 In reality , the list has taken shape in the Cabinet Office .
2 We will stress now , therefore , that we are describing the growth of a discipline which , although helped by many contributions from elsewhere , has taken shape largely in Britain and America .
3 Within recent years , one such challenging view has taken shape concerning the teaching of reading .
4 This view has taken shape in the theories of totalitarianism as a distinctive type of political system , exemplified in the Stalinist dictatorship as well as in the fascist regimes .
5 Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " .
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