Example sentences of "taken [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 2 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 3 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 4 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 5 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 6 | Taken together the various reviews and studies I have set in hand constitute the most substantial examination of the social security system since the Beveridge report forty years ago . |
| 7 | Taken together the three strands of the nursing " package " represented a major attempt to meet future demographic challenges . |
| 8 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 9 | It may be obtained from the consideration that in the absence of an external current the line integral of H ( taken over the dotted lines in Fig. 3.11(b) ) must vanish , leading |
| 10 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 11 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 12 | Thorns ( 1968 ) , from empirical work in Nottinghamshire , defined three types of village : first , villages with an established pattern of stratification based on the traditional rural economy or squirearchy ; second , villages in a state of transition ; and third , re-established villages where professional newcomers have taken over the dominant roles . |
| 13 | If the building is constructed with glazed curtain walling , care must be taken over the precise words used . |
| 14 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
| 16 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 17 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 18 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 19 | These , with certain trace elements , are taken up the woody fibres and much of the water evaporates at the leaf surfaces , while photosynthesis takes place . |
| 20 | people have generally liked the campaign and have taken out the desired messages . |