Example sentences of "had take a more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clarion ( 24 December 1898 ) seemed to think that the Home Secretary 's intransigence was some kind of Malthusian plot : In another discussion of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ The Daily Graphic ( 15 February 1898 ) had taken a more traditional line , recommending more traditional remedies : ‘ If birching and short sentences will not stop it , then more birching and longer sentences will have to be tried . ’ |
| 2 | Claire joined the firm from Bristol Polytechnic , where she studied accounting and finance , but Sandra had taken a more indirect route . |
| 3 | The career of Eric Williams , in the meantime , had taken a more propitious turn . |
| 4 | It was also proposed that the WEU should move its secretariat from London to Brussels , in order to reinforce its links with the EC , but no decision was expected until the question of political union in the EC had taken a more definitive shape ( the Maastricht summit of the EC 's European Council being scheduled to agree on this in December 1991 ) . |
| 5 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |