Example sentences of "has take a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
2 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
4 | It 's clear that ace coach Eddie Futch has taken a shine to him . |
5 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
6 | We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen . |
7 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
8 | Now the weather has taken a turn for the worse we realise we need to heat it . |
9 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
10 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
11 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
12 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
13 | One of the reputations that has taken a bit of a bashing is Sigismond Thalberg 's . |
14 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
15 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
16 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
17 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
18 | CU has taken a floor in another large City building , Plantation House , for key staff dealing in insurance markets to reduce the risk of disruption . |
19 | Wooster Gardens , a new gallery , has taken a floor in the building that houses Tom Cugliani and American Fine Arts and other new ventures — Penine-Hart , Sandra Gering and David Zwirner — have all recently opened their doors in SoHo . |
20 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
21 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
22 | A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell . |
23 | Sun Microsystems Inc has taken a licence for Digital 's Tools ' key project planning product AutoPlan , for internal use . |
24 | Ingres in Eastern Europe , Russia Hewlett-Packard Co has taken a licence from Ask Computer Systems Inc to distribute the Ingres relational database and application development tools throughout Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
25 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
26 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
27 | THE ECHO 'S champion chippy has taken a battering from a fire . |
28 | The Commission has shown that it is able to act with relative speed under this procedure and has taken a variety of actions under it , including ordering a party to supply another party , refusing to allow undertakings to acquire further shares in a company in a takeover situation , ordering the cessation of predatory pricing and an order requiring the execution of a detailed supply agreement under which the Commission was to be notified of any price changes by the offending party or any case where it was unable to fulfil orders . |
29 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
30 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |