Example sentences of "have taken [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 32 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 33 | And everything would have taken a different turn . |
| 34 | This could have taken the burning core through the concrete base of the reactor into the ground , a version of what is colloquially described as the ‘ China syndrome ’ . |
| 35 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 36 | Option ( b ) could have taken the following forms : ( i ) an attack on the forces/territory of those seeking to obstruct free navigation ; ( ii ) escort activity to defend merchant shipping seeking to exercise the right to free navigation ; and ( iii ) clearing wreckage or mines endangering free passage through Gulf waterways like the Strait of Hormuz . |
| 37 | I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser . |
| 38 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 39 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 40 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 41 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 42 | More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was . |
| 43 | The effort of talking after those months in silence and darkness must have taken the little strength she had . |
| 44 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 45 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 46 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 47 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 48 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |