Example sentences of "[verb] taken root " in BNC.
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| 1 | It merely wants the PLO to learn , as the members of the popular movement themselves have learnt , that the strength of the national movement lies in the philosophy which has taken root so strongly in the territories over the 1977–87 decade . |
| 2 | The idea has taken root ; but the plant has proved fragile — the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle ( HACA ) ( 1982–6 ) was replaced by the Commission Nationale de la Communication et des Libertés ( CNCL ) ( 1986–8 ) : in 1989 the latter was replaced by a Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel ( CSA ) . |
| 3 | The two countries in which the movement has taken root are Iraq and Syria , each of which now claims leadership of the movement on the pan-Arab level and dismisses all similar pretensions on the part of the other . |
| 4 | For the Duchess , a cake for her daughters and for Macintyre , a cherry tree to mark a friendship which has taken root . |
| 5 | It is an idea that has taken root recently in Scotland where local government and private enterprise , approaching it from different starting points , have begun to put both the idea and supporting environmental ideals to the test . |
| 6 | He had always thought he had no illusions about the artificiality of people 's reactions to him , but some must have taken root unaware . |
| 7 | Mr Major told the commons that the recovery does seem to have taken root . |
| 8 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 9 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 10 | By the time he left Sydney surfing had taken root in another continent . |
| 11 | The concept of personal salvation was not new to Rome since the cults of Isis and Dionysus had taken root in the city in the early first century . |
| 12 | I had discussed the possibility of a proper campaign with several friends over the past months and the idea had taken root in my mind . |
| 13 | Her thoughts were twirling around and , however much she told herself that all that astrology stuff was nonsense , she could not prevent the doubts that had taken root and now refused to be urged away . |
| 14 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |
| 15 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 16 | Moreover , hospital early discharge schemes have been slow to develop , yet are immensely popular where they have taken root . |
| 17 | According to Radio Times , TV Times has been hardest hit by the duopoly 's bust-up ( see chart ) , and it reckons Bauer , TV Quick 's publisher , will keep the price low and continue aggressive promotion until ‘ a significant proportion of readers have taken root in the brand ’ . |
| 18 | Since that time many independent Orc and Goblin tribes have taken root in the forests and mountains of that cold land . |
| 19 | Even the pillars have taken root and become living things , blossoming into lotus filials at the base , cusping around the voussoirs of the arch , erupting out into little jharokha balconies at the top . |
| 20 | we have taken root where we set foot ; |
| 21 | Yet some ideas have taken root , |