Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take [noun sg] " 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 Ten students at Kent University admitted taking part in a £400,000 telephone fraud .
4 A Teller from the west come to take service in Ralarth and learn a few more tales from the Dales people .
5 Is the Minister aware that in my constituency , because of Government policy , little house building has taken place ?
6 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.
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The two areas where the greatest change has taken place is in baits and approach .
14 But they hardly suggest that a major structural change has taken place .
15 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 .
16 In other words no change has taken place at all .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 This is an indication of how much change has taken place in the past .
21 The answer is that during the past 200 years or more a dynamic change has taken place .
22 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 ) .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 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 .
26 Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision .
27 The complex and dynamic environment in which fault finding has to take place provides an ideal application area for knowledge based system technology .
28 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 .
29 The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night .
30 After fertilization has taken place , the zygote is cultured in the laboratory for a few days and the proembryo is then placed in the woman 's uterus .
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