Example sentences of "to take [adj] action " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never before asked readers of New Scientist to take political action . |
| 2 | HERON International , the troubled property company , has warned the holders of its £465m worth of bonds not to take hasty action to recover their money while it is negotiating the restructuring of its debts . |
| 3 | require a solicitor to take specific action , such as compliance with an undertaking ; |
| 4 | Conventions are here understood in a narrow sense in which they are solutions to co-ordination problems , i.e. to situations in which the vast majority have sufficient reason to prefer to take that action which is ( likely to be ) taken by the vast majority . |
| 5 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 6 | Close monitoring and forecasting could give important early indications of cash flow problems , with time to take corrective action . |
| 7 | In relation to those incidents of a less serious nature to take corrective action by way of advice , caution or such other means as may be appropriate . |
| 8 | Equally , no company should fail to take advance action to prepare itself for them . |
| 9 | In the face of such concerted action it was clear that the Library Association had to take strong action on behalf of its members who , individually , could have little chance of opposing the ban . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a need to take strong action . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't do that sort of thing and expect the ref not to take strong action . ’ |
| 12 | The Games Administration Committee , who sometime ago reiterated their determination to take strong action in relation to off the ball incidents , have obviously decided that Carr 's action merited severe censure . |
| 13 | He says there 's a lot of noise at this party and we need to take strong action to get the noise down . |
| 14 | The US leader has said he wants Japan to take strong action to reduce the surplus . |
| 15 | The Iranian government , influenced perhaps by its approaching presidential election , thought this the moment to take muscular action against the irritant . |
| 16 | Here is one way to take remedial action . |
| 17 | Sometimes the NAO 's VFM reports indicate that it is too late to take remedial action , though lessons can be learnt in the future . |
| 18 | It recognises the need to take remedial action when poor general performance is alleged — but its inability to do so has , I believe , brought its regulatory function into disrepute . |
| 19 | This enables predictions of ozone formation at a particular location to be made and allows local authorities to take remedial action . |
| 20 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 21 | Most importantly this project is a microcosm of the best of the Highlander ideas — the people who were most disadvantaged pooled their energies into a collective involvement which identified the sort of information which they needed in order to take further action . |
| 22 | Butterfly knives and a range of martial arts equipment were banned by that means and the Government are ready to take further action if other types of weapon become a problem . |
| 23 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 24 | force my opponent to take some action that he currently is not taking ? |
| 25 | Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action . |
| 26 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 27 | Whereas the DoT almost ‘ directed ’ the BGA to take some action , they failed to direct the CAA , to co-operate ’ . |
| 28 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 29 | Erm during the executive erm Mary raised a point from the joint planning team about the erm charter and the remarks made by Dr. on that , would you like to say something on that Mary ? because we want to take some action . |
| 30 | Faced with the need to take some action , and willing to restrict the death penalty but not to abandon it completely , a classic step on the road to abolition , the Government turned again to the idea of categorizing murders which the Labour Government had attempted , fruitlessly , as a way out of a previous Parliamentary impasse in 1948 . |