Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 At the city 's Bluecoat Concert Hall , dance has once again taken centre stage .
4 You will become increasingly shifty about the fact that your child has n't actually taken the safety wheels off his bike yet .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 And the transformation has not just taken place underground .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The Moroccan government had also reportedly taken exception to the October appointment of Georges Kiejman as the new French Justice Minister .
14 No , her daughter had never before taken her child to the beach alone .
15 The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years .
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