Example sentences of "have take the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barry wants to see how she has taken the race and I do n't think he will make his mind up until next week , ’ said owner-breeder Dick Hollingsworth . |
| 2 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 3 | Bob has taken the plunge & acquired a video recorder — masquerading as my birthday present to him . |
| 4 | The formal procedures of the House have not , so far , had to be changed following the introduction of television , and the Procedure Committee has taken the view that , unless a powerful case can be made to the contrary , it is not for the House to adapt to televising . |
| 5 | Moreover , the Commission has taken the view that a 20% shareholding could lead to joint control in certain circumstances . |
| 6 | Also , the Commission has taken the view that pure R&D agreements involving no restrictions on the behaviour of the parties may nevertheless be caught by Article 85(1) where the R&D is central to developing the market in question and the market is oligopolistic in structure . |
| 7 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 8 | Training of users is also an issue and , helpfully , BT BIS has taken the line that their natural user group , the smaller firms , not only need training in how to use the system — which is , after all , not terribly difficult — but also in what the information available can be used for and , to some extent , how to use it . |
| 9 | Our initiative has taken the beauty and exercise world by storm . |
| 10 | The new fields into which Mr Reuter has taken the group since the mid-1980s — aerospace , electricals and financial services — are either yielding little or are deep in the red . |
| 11 | Westminster City Council has taken the initiative and published its own code of practice for caterers on the implications of the Food Safety Act 1990 . |
| 12 | The head has to take the chance and to trust that an opportunity will in the end turn out to have been well handled . |
| 13 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 14 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 15 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 16 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 17 | In some cases ( but only in Newham ) the development officer said she had had to take the initiative or ‘ push ’ to get a client admitted to an institution . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have taken the money and kept quiet , ’ he said abruptly . |
| 19 | those of Lord Lowry ] been brought to the attention of the other division it would have taken the view that we do today . |
| 20 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 21 | I brought it with me and I would n't have taken the job if I could n't have continued it here . |
| 22 | He says he would n't have taken the job if it had been in the south . |
| 23 | Hindhead should have taken the lead when Frampton 's cross was misjudged by Wagstaff in front of a gaping goal . |
| 24 | Having taken the plunge and opened the package I was delighted to find that the software is n't copy protected — no problems running it on my hard disk systems here , or so I thought . |
| 25 | The play revolves around Brose , a harebrained nonentity machine-operator , who runs a boiler room of a semi-automated antiseptic dye factory , having taken the job because it was easy work and non-union , and who manages to annoy everybody except his fiancée . |
| 26 | Having taken the orders and observed the quality of the breakfast on offer to members , Amiss was relieved that Colonel Fagg had been allocated to Elsa rather than to him . |
| 27 | I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was |
| 28 | He would just have to take the rope and chair together . |
| 29 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 30 | You will have to take the risk if you want to keep this man . |