Example sentences of "to have taken [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 2 | Worsley was reappointed surgeon-general to the army in Ireland in 1647 , but seems not to have taken up the post . |
| 3 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 4 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 5 | John Powell , at 61 , is probably the oldest driver to have taken on the new Grand Prix Circuit . |
| 6 | Even though it does seem to have taken over the house a bit . ’ |
| 7 | But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , sir , Document B , and I should here direct your attention to Document B1 which is a report of an interview with the girl 's mother submitted on her behalf by the latest Visitor to have taken over the case . |
| 9 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 10 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |