Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 2 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 3 | Edis was , I learned , the only woman photographer commissioned to take pictures of the Western Front battlefields ( of women specifically ) , though other women who were out there anyway ( like Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm ) took pictures of themselves and their lives out there . |
| 4 | Ten students at Kent University admitted taking part in a £400,000 telephone fraud . |
| 5 | A Teller from the west come to take service in Ralarth and learn a few more tales from the Dales people . |
| 6 | Confidence in road building has taken knocks too . |
| 7 | Is the Minister aware that in my constituency , because of Government policy , little house building has taken place ? |
| 8 | But such union-government bargaining has taken place on a wide range of issues ; for example , over new investment in poorer regions ( e.g. Eisenhammer 1985 : 42–4 ) , rescue bids for ailing private sector companies ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 82 ) , extension of union participation in management ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 9 | If however the shares of each party have never been determined , then at least proper service of the notice of severance ensures that severance has taken place with the advantage as mentioned earlier ( see p51 ) . |
| 10 | Whilst the notice itself may be sufficient to sever the beneficial joint tenancy , to prevent a conveyance by the survivor either through ignorance or fraud it would be prudent to endorse a memorandum on the last conveyance to the effect that severance has taken place . |
| 11 | Where no charge is registered , the registrar , if otherwise prepared to accept the application , may well be prepared to register the restriction without the land certificate provided he is satisfied that severance has taken place ( see Ruoff and Roper , Registered Conveyancing , Looseleaf edn , Sweet and Maxwell , 1991 , 39.21 ) . |
| 12 | The reason why linguistics has had such importance for literary theory , however , is not just that a change of direction has taken place in the development of the discipline . |
| 13 | Today even more reduction has taken place : now the more pedantically-minded geographers dispense with talk of any subdivisions , perhaps hesitating to diminish so mighty a feature of the globe by paring it apart and apportioning its sections hither and yon . |
| 14 | This chapter examines the way that change has taken place , in particular in relation to social structure in terms of changing social relations of production , and the contribution to this process of change made by different social groups , such as political elites and the peasantry . |
| 15 | The two areas where the greatest change has taken place is in baits and approach . |
| 16 | But they hardly suggest that a major structural change has taken place . |
| 17 | This is done when some identifiable change takes place , perhaps in the law or in social policy , and the researcher studies its effects by comparing the before-and-after situation or the situation in a group where the change has taken place with one where it has not . |
| 18 | In other words no change has taken place at all . |
| 19 | A significant change has taken place in the wording of the statement , on this particular issue , from the original nineteen ninety draft of which was produced by the working party of which I was convenor . |
| 20 | Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study . |
| 21 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 22 | This is an indication of how much change has taken place in the past . |
| 23 | The answer is that during the past 200 years or more a dynamic change has taken place . |
| 24 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 25 | Order 26 , r 5 applies where any change has taken place after judgment by death , assignment or otherwise , in the parties entitled to enforce a judgment or order or in the parties liable under a judgment or order . |
| 26 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 27 | SERPs ( State Earnings Related Pension ) will no longer be related to the best 20 years of earnings , a provision designed to take account of women 's variable earnings pattern . |
| 28 | Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision . |
| 29 | The complex and dynamic environment in which fault finding has to take place provides an ideal application area for knowledge based system technology . |
| 30 | When admission has taken place , however , the legacy of public and professional attitudes towards parents whose children have entered public care often appears an insur-mountable obstacle to any further constructive contact between parents and their children . |