Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yes , er erm er another bit of paper to dish out to have a look at er for those that er are not too familiar with the motorway project which has has taken up erm quite a lot of my time . |
| 2 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 3 | In these circumstances they are more able to realise their true ideological potential , which seems to mean taking on the characteristics of the most rapacious forms of capitalist entrepreneurship . |
| 4 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 5 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 6 | The enterprise which had begun to take off in Napoleonic Paris had undoubtedly made enormous progress ; far more was known about the world than had been a generation or two earlier . |
| 7 | Section 7.4 reviews some quantitative studies which have attempted to take over directly from phonology the notion of the semantically neutral variable , and in subsequent sections analyses of variation which explicitly take into account semantic and discourse factors are discussed . |
| 8 | It is therefore hardly surprising that there are firms which have chosen to take out what is effectively ‘ protective authorisation ’ ; in other words , while they have no intention of conducting any investment business , they regard authorisation as a sensible precaution in case they inadvertently slip into it . |