Example sentences of "have take [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small North Wales town of Wrexham is one example of an authority that has taken a particularly active role in industrial promotion , and figure 3.4 shows one of their many eye-catching advertisements placed in the national press . |
| 2 | But on other occasions ( see box below ) Sit Patrick has taken a more robust view of juries . |
| 3 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 5 | The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy . |
| 6 | In these respects , the EC has taken a very proactive role , guided by the importance of the single market which can not effectively exist if intellectual property rights vary from one Member State to another or if they can be used to restrict the free movement of goods . |
| 7 | because the council has taken a very hard line on the interpretation of legislation and is turning people away . |
| 8 | In one country , Malawi , the President has taken a somewhat extreme stand against ‘ modern methods ’ in education and has forbidden their use . |
| 9 | The Labour leadership has taken a typically defensive position on the politics of the war . |
| 10 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 11 | In recent weeks Ankara has taken an increasingly hard line against Syria over the 5,000 Kurdish guerrillas in camps in the Syrian-controlled valley in Lebanon . |
| 12 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 13 | Modern linguistics has taken an entirely different road , rejecting the historicist and evolutionist interests of the mid-nineteenth century perhaps with excessive violence , and to this extent the main development of philology in our period worked out known principles rather than anticipating new ones . |
| 14 | The Italian Government has taken an extremely sporadic interest ever since , and research continues only in fits and starts , though over two million people a year visit the site . |
| 15 | A good care assistant who remembers this has taken the most important step in developing the support which his or her clients need and deserve . |
| 16 | To cope with this , the father has to take a very active part in housekeeping and child-rearing , violating traditional conceptions of gender roles . |
| 17 | We 'd taken the swiftly accelerating Spirit away from the homespun drag races of Woodward Avenue , hoping Chrysler 's hype on for the R/T was well founded . |
| 18 | They clearly felt he should have taken a more manly approach to the brain tumour . |
| 19 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 20 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 21 | Then , after having taken the most daring steps forward he sometimes retreats a few paces , so that on comparing two paintings close in date the earlier example often seems more advanced and developed . |
| 22 | But when is he going to give an ounce of credit to the Government for having set up the TECs , for having put in place the instrument of the training revolution that is now taking place in this country , and for having taken the most imaginative step that we have ever seen in our training history ? |
| 23 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
| 24 | While a corollary of the new deal may be that some consultants will have to take a more direct role in the acute management of patients , this in no way diminishes the attraction of a senior post . |
| 25 | Either we 'll have to take a very heavy discount on it , or we 'll get our accounts qualified . |
| 26 | If the recognition skills are not well-developed , then the decoding process may have to take the more indirect route , employing the mediating phonological stage . |
| 27 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 28 | So what I 've tried to show diagrammatically is that , we start ninety four , ninety five with plans in place , shown by the vertical dotted line on the graph , a number of those will die or leave the system for other reasons during the year , and we 've taken a fairly optimistic view I would say , erm , optimistic in the financial sense , that a significant number of those will leave the system during the year . |
| 29 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 30 | So I think we 've taken a more enlightened attitude in that sense . |