Example sentences of "which [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 2 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 3 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 4 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 5 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 6 | She gave a little gesture , out towards the windows , to the formal parterre which had taken twenty men as many months to relay and replant . |
| 7 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 8 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 9 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 10 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 11 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |