Example sentences of "have take [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a graveyard for cars at Kilvey hill , where young men drive cars that they have taken without authority and then burn them . |
| 2 | Singers like Dennis Brown have taken up Marley 's mantle ; so too have the growing number of rap poets whose patois English is well-nigh incomprehensible to non-Jamaican ears . |
| 3 | Many educators and non-linguists , for instance , have criticised such spoken uses as ‘ you know ’ , which they have taken as signs of ‘ sloppy ’ speech or ‘ imprecise ’ thinking . |
| 4 | While admitting that the Gray 's Inn Road site 's top five floors are a major worry , Mathews points out that they have taken into account that there will be no revenue from them until the end of the year . |
| 5 | Even allowing for the reluctance of the courts to subject operational police decisions to judicial review , it may be apparent that the police have failed to take into account in their decision making a relevant consideration , or have taken into account an irrelevant one , which would leave the decision open to review . |
| 6 | ( I have taken into account the transfer of White and Rocky , and also when calculating totals have taken the highest monetary value player in each category ( full back , midfield etc ) ignoring whether they are injured or not ) |
| 7 | You will not know the precise balance until you have prepared a completion statement , and you can not prepare a completion statement until you have worked out your own firm 's costs and disbursements ; and indeed until you have taken into account the costs and additional fees or charges that may be relevant to the particular transaction . |
| 8 | The N Y C C in their assessment do not we believe have taken into account the severe environmental damage which any western relief road would impose on the landscape . |
| 9 | This abandonment of both the major innovations made by the descendants of Eusthenopteron during their colonisation of the land occurs not only among those salamanders that have taken to water but even among some that spend their lives almost entirely on land . |
| 10 | Skiing adventurers have taken to heli-skiing which involves learning to operate an electronic transmitter in case of avalanches . |
| 11 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 12 | ‘ You will please to remember , ’ its secretary , Henry Oldenburg , told the governor of Connecticut in 1667 , ‘ that we have taken to task the whole universe , and that we were obliged to do so by the nature of our design . ’ |
| 13 | The profusion of newer universities have taken to offering franchised versions of their courses at further education colleges , while breaking with the tradition that it was unbecoming for a university to do anything so crass as advertising its wares . |
| 14 | The House should reject the amendment , but should be assured that we have taken on board the point made by the amendment . |
| 15 | We have taken on board some new technologies , a computer simulation package and a CAD system , which have significantly improved efficiency in the department , ’ said Phil . |
| 16 | All that has happened proves that they have taken on board the social consequences of change , while also recognising the future needs of a very special industry — the energy industry . |
| 17 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 18 | ‘ They have taken on board that with redundancy now a prominent part of corporate life severance pay is no longer enough and employees need practical help , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's hard to believe such a vivacious personality is lost to us ’ , ’ Dysart was quoted as saying 'and harder still to accept that the stand I have taken against terrorism may have brought about her death . ’ ’ |
| 20 | Some dealers do supply second-hand computers which they have taken in part exchange and these may have the additional advantage of a short guarantee . |
| 21 | I have this day bid farewell to the Misses Wynne , two English ladies who have been as friends to me and I am sorry to see them go , and have taken in Miss Hawarth , an old friend of Mr Browning 's together with two other ladies who will stay until Easter . |
| 22 | Make it clear that you have taken in details by phrasing questions along the lines of , ‘ I 've looked at your educational record which seems excellent but could you perhaps tell me why you did not pass maths until two years after your other 0 levels/changed schools halfway through A levels/took a year off while doing your degree ? ’ |
| 23 | We have paid out eight times as much in funds to industry as we have taken in premiums since 1984 . |
| 24 | Rochlin appropriates for masculinity , albeit in a form so highly selective it might hardly be recognized , that sense of the inherent instability of identity which Lacanians and others have taken from psychoanalysis for feminism . |
| 25 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 26 | It is the latter statement which you have to take on trust . |
| 27 | And maybe that is part of real life , maybe that is a fact of life that women have to take on board , but perhaps men have to take it on board a bit more as well . |
| 28 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 29 | All this clobber you always have to take to school , I 'm not kidding ! |
| 30 | I have a certain degree of sympathy for men because I think you have to take into consideration that men are n't given enough opportunity to feel se , er sympathetic , maybe again is the wrong word |