Example sentences of "has 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 . |