Example sentences of "have take [art] lead in " 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 Swindon had taken the lead in the first half through striker Maskell .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid , TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 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 ’ ;
16 That is why we have taken the lead in the restaurant industry to voluntarily list and explain the ingredients in our food .
17 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 .
18 It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that geography was not integral to the theory of long waves , apart from the descriptive fact that different countries have taken the lead in successive cycles .
19 Terry Acheson , a director of the locally-owned Londonderry processing-plant , said : ‘ We have taken the lead in marketing Farm Quality Assured lambs from seven local lamb groups to customers across the water and on the Continent .
20 Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college .
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