Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caution is all the more necessary when we realize that there are varieties in which this change has not yet taken place , more than three centuries later , and that there are yet other varieties in which different changes have taken place . |
| 2 | Expensive litigation is still some way off The whisky has not fully taken its toll . |
| 3 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |
| 4 | As far as I know , Sainsburys have n't yet taken that decision they 've they 've hung on the brink for more than six months now . |
| 5 | At the city 's Bluecoat Concert Hall , dance has once again taken centre stage . |
| 6 | You will become increasingly shifty about the fact that your child has n't actually taken the safety wheels off his bike yet . |
| 7 | The health council has not yet taken an official position on the board 's proposals , but Mr Tait said that since Arbroath was a popular holiday town , it required better services than that of a cottage hospital . |
| 8 | In this case , the Law Lords chose to say that the GLC had not adequately taken into account the interests of the rate payers and that the interests of the users of public transport had been unduly preferred . |
| 9 | Maggie had n't even taken notes , and most of Mitch 's shots seemed to be for pleasure . |
| 10 | It may be assumed that the impulse of cruelty arises from the instinct for mastery and appears a period of sexual life at which the genitals have not yet taken over their later role . |
| 11 | However , this redistribution has not yet taken place to any significant extent , with the acute hospital sector managing to preserve its stranglehold upon health care expenditure . |
| 12 | The collective mind in action is clearly an important topic but it seems to be a challenge which psychologists have not yet taken up . |
| 13 | And the transformation has not just taken place underground . |
| 14 | In writing this I am acutely aware that the energy of commitment fuelled by the gravity of the situation in the Philippines has once more taken a hold of me . |
| 15 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 16 | However , the fact that the polls seem to indicate that gung-ho reductionism has n't really taken off this time round suggests a significant advance on the Falklands ' spirit . |
| 17 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 18 | Councils believe they have been squeezed to the point where services will suffer and jobs are threatened , and that the Scottish Secretary has now virtually taken control of local government expenditure . |
| 19 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 20 | The Moroccan government had also reportedly taken exception to the October appointment of Georges Kiejman as the new French Justice Minister . |
| 21 | No , her daughter had never before taken her child to the beach alone . |
| 22 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 23 | Erm but my councillors have n't yet taken a view on whether there is a possible site in Harrogate district . |
| 24 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 25 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 26 | During the time he 'd been talking , Kemp had scarcely once taken his eyes from Nina 's face . |
| 27 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 28 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 29 | Mrs Parvis said Hitler had n't really taken the poison in his bunker . |
| 30 | I ca n't think why pure-voiced sopranos like Emma Kirkby have n't also taken it up ; it would suit them very well . |