Example sentences of "it [vb past] take [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 2 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 3 | In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 . |
| 4 | It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that the Government made an error of judgment when it decided to take Britain into the ERM in October 1990 , just as Germany was entering an economic crisis . |
| 5 | No , no it took took place in the end of March . |
| 6 | In response the World Bank in September outlined changes which it said took account of the report 's criticisms . |
| 7 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 8 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 9 | It had taken hold of Jesus and turned his spirit into a system . |
| 10 | It had taken Duroc at least three quarters of an hour to get through the Holderness-Manolo security system . |
| 11 | Kenjayev resigned both as Chair of the Supreme Soviet and as Presidium member on April 22 on the release by the opposition of 16 deputies and two deputy ministers whom it had taken hostage on April 21 ( having issued an ultimatum ) ; they were released when they agreed to press for Kenjayev 's resignation . |
| 12 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 13 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 14 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 15 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 16 | For Williams , emancipation had taken place from above but , for James , it had taken place from below . |
| 17 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |
| 18 | ‘ If it had taken place in London or New York I would have simply bawled at him to get lost . |
| 19 | A Gosteleradio statement declared that it had taken action after discovering that in September 1990 Interfax had registered as an independent agency without notifying Radio Moscow , but had persisted in using Radio Moscow facilities . |
| 20 | It attempted to take control by ordering all local authorities to comply with the state of emergency or risk suspension , and by banning political parties , demonstrations and strikes . |