Example sentences of "has taken [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd give a bag of gold , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ to know what has taken Santerre to Glastonbury . |
| 2 | Whether or not a person has taken possession of land is a question of fact depending on all the particular circumstances . |
| 3 | Valerie , whose hobbies include tennis , squash , hiking and , more recently , golf , was presented with a Coalport plaque which she said has taken pride of place in her lounge . |
| 4 | Promoting Historic Scotland abroad has taken Bill to conferences and trade missions in South East Asia , Japan , Germany , Canada and the United States in the last year . |
| 5 | She has taken part in gymnastics and movement classes since the age of eight ; saw Medau demonstrated at Bedford College in 1951 and became ‘ hooked ’ . |
| 6 | Mrs Mita Harris , ladies captain of Lee Park in 1968 and 1977 , has taken office as captain of the Society of Liverpool Lady Golf Captains . |
| 7 | As head of Univel 's development in its product group , Righter was reportedly dissatisfied with Univel 's strategic direction and has taken refuge within Scott McGregor 's product business unit at SCO . |
| 8 | No party or coalition has taken control in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | The investment banking group S G Warburg has taken account of FRS 3 in its sic-month interim report to 30 September 1992 . |
| 10 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 11 | Rupert Widdicombe reports on the revolution that has taken Deportivo from obscurity to the top of the league |
| 12 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 13 | IT HAS taken time for people around Europe to grasp the full meaning of what has been done , and continues to be done , in their name by their political leaders . |
| 14 | LYNNE Humes has taken time off work as a staff nurse at Darlington Memorial Hospital to start a family , and her son Anthony was born in January . |
| 15 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |
| 16 | Most of mining has taken place on greenfield sites , and the quality of restoration and aftercare rarely compensates for the loss of visual appeal or wildlife habitat of the land sacrificed for so- called cheap energy . |
| 17 | The funeral has taken place of Earl Spencer who died of a heart attack at the weekend . |
| 18 | Although a good deal of excavation has taken place at Alcester , especially in the south-western suburb around Birch Abbey , very little has received full publication.6 Excavations in the fortified area of the town have always been difficult owing to the presence of modern buildings , but with new developments taking place , they have at last become feasible ; even now , though , the line of the defences is still imperfectly known . |
| 19 | Difficulties are encountered where considerable dissolution has taken place during diagenesis of the sediment ( Section 5.3.5 ) . |
| 20 | The reflowering of narrative has taken place without reference to one particular school or movement , to one genre or style . |
| 21 | He has already been constantly amazed at what has taken place through Philip ! |
| 22 | This social fusion has taken place through intermarriage and access to the social circles and institutions which denote prestige in society , such as organisations , clubs and landed estates ( Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 23 | But tomorrow the British Olympic Association holds its annual meeting in Manchester , the first time in its 85 years that the meeting has taken place outside London , and the reason is that Scott asked . |
| 24 | This development has taken place as part of our work on general SVQs . |
| 25 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 26 | Here is the real change which has taken place in school libraries . |
| 27 | I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The merger has taken place within the last six months ( unless it has taken place in secret ) . |
| 29 | There is also an increasing concern for the curriculum among teachers in other countries , although they often operate in more centralised education systems and have not been ‘ involved ’ in the kind of debate that has taken place in England and Wales . |
| 30 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |