Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings .
2 Furthermore , they have taken no part in the great debate in the Scottish Constitutional Convention , although there is still a seat available for that party .
3 She admires wealth-creators , entrepreneurs , and people who have taken a chance in the market rather than those who work in the public sector .
4 Those who have taken a course in German or French as a foreign language will already have some formal knowledge of that language .
5 Many readers will have noted the fact that WWF-UK , in particular , have taken a lead in putting greater emphasis on developing relationships with the big aid agencies , including our own in Britain ( the ODA ) , the EEC , the World Bank and other development banks in the hope that the large sums of money which they have can be directed , at least in part , towards overcoming these substantial long-term difficulties .
6 In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid , TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies .
7 German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications .
8 The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades .
9 Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field .
10 They too have taken an interest in the ideological and cultural world of the communities but only to facilitate and improve their marketing of so-called popular drugs like aspirin and alkaseltzer .
11 Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain .
12 This is Local Government Information unit , which is funded from all of the Local Authority Associations , and they have taken an interest in the passing of the environmental bills and they ran , we do give them some help , which we did .
13 The Dutch were silver medallists last time and England have taken the bronze in the last two events .
14 In Britain , it has been trade unions , rather than manufacturers , purchasers and governments , who have taken the initiative in discussing the ergonomic design and installation of VDUs .
15 ‘ Joisey ’ is still the butt of jokes made by New York sophisticates , but its political leaders , like the outgoing Governor Kean , now have national stature and have taken the lead in forming social policy for the rest of America on welfare reform , school financing , public housing and care of the environment .
16 we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ;
17 That is why we have taken the lead in the restaurant industry to voluntarily list and explain the ingredients in our food .
18 American liberals have taken the lead in defining equal opportunity as the goal of a decent society , but the European left is following on only for lack of anything better to pursue .
19 It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that geography was not integral to the theory of long waves , apart from the descriptive fact that different countries have taken the lead in successive cycles .
20 Terry Acheson , a director of the locally-owned Londonderry processing-plant , said : ‘ We have taken the lead in marketing Farm Quality Assured lambs from seven local lamb groups to customers across the water and on the Continent .
21 Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college .
22 For example , all students now have to take a course in the history of religion , which is another sign of change in the religious climate of the Soviet Union .
23 But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think .
24 ‘ You see , we have to take an interest in everything which hinges on the strange case of Sabine Jourdain . ’
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