Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] took the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manufacturers also took the opportunity to review their quality control procedures . |
| 2 | Political conflicts normally took the form of struggles between parties or individuals for influence over the ruler , struggles in which the victor secured the all-important privilege of easy access to him and in which the vanquished were dismissed , disgraced or exiled . |
| 3 | And Rovers duly took the lead after eight minutes . |
| 4 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 5 | The visitors deservedly took the lead on 16 minutes when a fine move involving Gary McCartney and Mark Glendinning on the left ended with Jonathan Magee crashing the ball into the net . |
| 6 | Until recently both football and cricket administrators simply took the loyalty of the crowds for granted . |
| 7 | The Conservatives then took the idea up in a slightly more limited way , but Labour returned to power to put their own scheme on the statute book in 1975 . |
| 8 | Trainees , or inexperienced dealers alone took the task seriously , and had the most burdensome time of it . |
| 9 | As Turkish operations against the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) continued in northern Iraq [ see p. 39163 ] Turkish troops gained control of the Hakurk triangle at the end of October , while in early November , according to Turkish reports , about 1,000 rebels were killed when troops also took the Haftanin area . |
| 10 | Employers also took the opportunity to launch an assault on working practices . |
| 11 | A common explanation is that these revolutions came from outside : East Europeans simply took the chance offered by Mikhail Gorbachev 's Sinatra doctrine to ‘ do it their way ’ . |
| 12 | In Scotland , unlike England , rates were charged on empty buildings and many owners simply took the roof off to avoid the levy . |
| 13 | The Plazas immediately took the public 's imagination . |
| 14 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 15 | Attempts to mitigate what were recognized as disastrous divisions often took the form of a refusal to acknowledge the wide difference of ability that existed between pupils , which led to a style and content of teaching roughly directed to the middle band of children , the least and the most able being left to shift for themselves . |
| 16 | The English and Australian newspapers heavily took the team to task . |
| 17 | Whereas the western credit instruments mainly took the form of Bills of Exchange , the Japanese concentrated on Promissory Notes . |
| 18 | Others even took the view that the Party was deliberately exploiting the situation , with the Führer away at the Front leading the struggle against Bolshevism , to destroy the basis of Christianity at home ‘ behind his back ’ . |
| 19 | Some of these names it is certain were acquired at school but most when they began work and these nicknames completely took the place of their Christian names and lasted through the rest of their lives , it being not unusual to know a person for years without ever knowing his proper name . |
| 20 | These meal-time confrontations always took the edge off her appetite . |