Example sentences of "taken the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She compared the results of students who had taken the regular lecture course with those of students using the computer-based programme and found no statistical difference in the amount of learning . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 3 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 4 | They will have travelled wider , and taken the European dimension for granted in their lives . |
| 5 | Long at the Bridgewater Arms in Winston , they 've more recently taken the Black Horse at Ingleton and , last year , the Bridge on Whorlton green . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Whichever route is taken the prepatent period is 14-21 days . |
| 8 | Unaided by technology ( but possibly assisted by an abundance of cheap labour and a convenient absence of red tape ) the Mark II establishment was up and running in a quarter of the time it has taken the current version to proceed from the stage of the second catastrophic fire in 1980 to opening its doors . |
| 9 | As in Australia , where Strictly Ballroom has taken the astounding sum ( for Australia ) of £4 million , British ballroom dancing is booming with new dancing schools ( tel. 071 609 1386 for details of lessons ) . |
| 10 | KOP legend Ray Kennedy has taken the heartbreaking decision to sell his prized collection of soccer memorabilia . |
| 11 | True , his editor had taken the surprising step of allowing him to pursue this story all the way to London . |
| 12 | Any member of the secret society who takes public office or joins the police should declare they have taken the Masonic oath to counter , he told MPs . |
| 13 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 14 | It appears that you have taken the real content of my personal views out of their true context and treated them with an interpretation that I least expected . |
| 15 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 17 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 18 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 19 | But he had taken the great step . |
| 20 | One , the British gay director Richard Kwietniowski , has taken the simple reading a stage further by making the prize-winning short film , Flames of Passion ( 1990 ) , which is both pastiche of and homage to the Coward original , reworking its iconography into an updated story of gay romance that begins with hurried glances on a station platform and , times having changed , ends with intertwined consummation on the train . |
| 21 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 22 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |
| 23 | Many Christians do stand ‘ shoulder-to-shoulder with the oppressed ’ ( Letters NI 174 ) and have taken the preferential option for the poor . |
| 24 | At the end of the call , quickly run through what has been said , to make sure that you have taken the right order or been given the correct information . |
| 25 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 26 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 27 | to have taken the right decision for once . |
| 28 | Er , but that 's an indication of what 's happening in that area , and indeed , the members erm , I am pleased to say , have taken the right attitude to that , recognised that that 's the case and er addressing that , together with the revenue spend , erm , in a manner which I find is erm , of responsible and approved . |
| 29 | In England , however , the birth of many children suffering from deformities caused by their mothers having taken the new drug thalidomide prescribed by doctors during their pregnancy resulted in the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 . |
| 30 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |