Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] taken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 2 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 3 | No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren … |
| 4 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 5 | The party strengths in the House of Commons after all these by-elections ( excluding the Speaker and the Chairman and two Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means ) were : Conservatives 369 , Labour 228 , Liberal Democrats 21 , OUP 9 , SNP 5 , social democrats 3 [ see below ] , Plaid Cymru 3 , SDLP 3 , DUP 3 , UPUP 1 , and Sinn Féin 1 ( although Adams had not taken up his seat as Sinn Féin MP ) . |
| 6 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 7 | Mr Fisher said Neill had perhaps taken too many initiatives at once in the past year . |
| 8 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 9 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |
| 10 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 11 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 12 | Yorkshire have now taken on two Pakistani lads for coaching , all-rounder Adil Ditta and Ismail Dawood , a promising batsman and wicket-keeper . |
| 13 | Constance could not get out of her mind the careless way Gioella had completely taken over Ludovico , excluding her as if she mattered not at all . |
| 14 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 15 | but Weir had undoubtedly taken on too much . |
| 16 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 17 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 18 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 19 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 20 | Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers . |
| 21 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 22 | Former Sunderland boss Len Ashurst has temporarily taken over as consultant manager of the Beazer Homes League club . |
| 23 | Princesse Mathilde , when she and Frederick had originally taken over the château , had been similarly inspired by its location . |
| 24 | The EC has also taken on the role of policing the exercise of these rights through the Commission and the European Court of Justice , taking its brief from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome 1957 concerning free movement of goods and services , restrictive trade agreements and abuses of dominant trading positions . |
| 25 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
| 26 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 27 | This is a challenge which I and my colleague John Davis have already taken up . |
| 28 | Townspeople who form the Loftus Development Trust under the chairmanship of Barbara Welford have now taken over the work of the Civic Trust Project . |
| 29 | ‘ The YMCA has now taken on a much more important role , ’ says the genial Mr Hewitt , who is very concerned about the homeless . |
| 30 | There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State . |