Example sentences of "have take [art] lead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Conservative Government has taken a lead in working to protect the ozone layer . |
| 2 | The Scotch Whisky Industry has taken a lead in establishing company policies for identifying and providing treatment for employees with alcohol problems . |
| 3 | For Japan , which has taken the lead in the Cambodian operation , one more act of generosity might ensure the success of its most ambitious post-war venture into international affairs . |
| 4 | Hugh Tait has taken the lead in trying to distinguish between fact and fiction when it comes to fakes and forgeries . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend will know that my hon. Friend the Minister of State , Treasury , has taken the lead in the discussions . |
| 6 | It 's not the first time that Wimpey has taken the lead in Scotland . |
| 7 | Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening . |
| 8 | I simply say that it is fairly obvious that Britain could have taken the lead in clean coal technology . |
| 9 | Chiddingfold should have taken the lead after five minutes when Rob Madgwick conceded a penalty for a trip . |
| 10 | Watford had the best of the early exchanges , but Leeds should have taken the lead after 16 minutes . |
| 11 | The last of his five victories in the Tour , in 1985 , was partly owed to LeMond , who obeyed his manager 's instructions to hold back when he could have taken the lead from an older man . |
| 12 | Historians seem to have taken the lead from their subject : the RPF is still the least studied and least well-understood part of de Gaulle 's career . |
| 13 | Rangers had taken the lead through Sinton before Gray equalised in the second half , Gordon Durie grabbing the winner 11 minutes from time although Spurs manager Peter Shreeves admitted his team were lucky to win . |
| 14 | A flurry of three goals in the last seven minutes from Masters , Stewart and Kinsella clinhed the points for Colchester , who had taken the lead through McDonough . |
| 15 | Britain had fought back bravely with a great equaliser from Jane Sixsmith after Germany had taken the lead through Nadine Ernsting . |
| 16 | Dundee captain Billy Dodds scored his first goal in 11 games to wrest a point from the marginally more deserving Airdrie , who had taken the lead through an Andy Smith header prior to Dodds opportunist equaliser 13 minutes from the end . |
| 17 | Wednesday had taken the lead with a Neil Thompson own-goal . |
| 18 | Swindon had taken the lead in the first half through striker Maskell . |
| 19 | Burnley had taken the lead in the 13th minute when Adrian Heath capitalised on a dreadful clearance by Town keeper Tom Clarke , slipping the ball past Clarke before slotting into the empty net . |
| 20 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 21 | Latymer had taken the lead after 10 minutes but , despite playing the better football throughout , were beaten by two scrambled goals from Rodney Walshe , one just before half-time and the other 30 seconds from the end . |
| 22 | They had taken the lead after two minutes with a simple move that found the Oxford defence in disarray . |
| 23 | The Arsenal equaliser came in the 82nd minute and denied a Norwich side that had taken the lead after 36 minutes when Ruel Fox scored his first goal for six months . |
| 24 | That is the old-fashioned type of socialism that the hon. Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) has always pursued , and unfortunately the occupants of the Labour Front Bench have taken a lead from him rather than from more sensible parents . |
| 25 | Many readers will have noted the fact that WWF-UK , in particular , have taken a lead in putting greater emphasis on developing relationships with the big aid agencies , including our own in Britain ( the ODA ) , the EEC , the World Bank and other development banks in the hope that the large sums of money which they have can be directed , at least in part , towards overcoming these substantial long-term difficulties . |
| 26 | In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid , TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies . |
| 27 | ‘ Joisey ’ is still the butt of jokes made by New York sophisticates , but its political leaders , like the outgoing Governor Kean , now have national stature and have taken the lead in forming social policy for the rest of America on welfare reform , school financing , public housing and care of the environment . |
| 28 | we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ; |
| 29 | That is why we have taken the lead in the restaurant industry to voluntarily list and explain the ingredients in our food . |
| 30 | American liberals have taken the lead in defining equal opportunity as the goal of a decent society , but the European left is following on only for lack of anything better to pursue . |