Example sentences of "have [adv] taken [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 2 | Pitt , who camped out in a tent roasting hot dogs with Deacon for a week at a time during filming , has since taken the sport of fly fishing to heart . |
| 3 | In the present difficult financial situation , SERC has regretfully taken the decision to cancel EASE 91 conference and exhibition which was to be held at the University of Birmingham on the 25th–27th March 1991 . |
| 4 | However , relatively little work has been put into the development of design techniques for mechanisms , and what there has been has mostly taken the form of analysing specified mechanism trains to obtain their motion throughout the operating cycle . |
| 5 | He began on a note of defiance : " If what is meant by that is that the President of the Republic has personally taken the decisions which it was incumbent upon him to take , that is entirely correct . " |
| 6 | It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble . |
| 7 | He has obviously taken the Echo 's Fun Fortnight very seriously indeed … perhaps a little too seriously . |
| 8 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 9 | Where London has perhaps taken a lead , it has been followed . |
| 10 | The Library Association has thus taken a consistent position on censorship over a period of at least 25 years . |
| 11 | It is regrettable that the House of Lords has not taken a similarly progressive approach . |
| 12 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 13 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 14 | But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him . |
| 15 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 16 | A second objection is that it still has not taken the point seriously enough about the rights of pupils to autonomy and freedom in reflectiveness and choice of commitment . |
| 17 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 18 | Inspired by the success of Film On Four and the ITV companies ' recent forays into film-making ( like Granada 's My Left Foot ) , the BBC has finally taken the plunge into the feature-film market , in partnership with Palace Pictures and British Screen . |
| 19 | Only four results left and so far Lenny Henry has just taken a clear lead from Victoria Wood . |
| 20 | Neil Young has just taken a three-minute break between the arrival of the NME and the departure of Radio 1 's Johnny Walker . |
| 21 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 22 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 23 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 24 | The idea that someone has already taken a very close look before choosing the victim shakes them considerably . |
| 25 | Insignia has already taken a 10% stake in Bridgefield , Connecticut-based Bristol Technology Inc , capping a deal for the two firms to develop and combine products that will allow Windows applications to run on desktop Unix systems . |
| 26 | Insignia has already taken a 10% stake in Bridgefield , Connecticut-based Bristol Technology Inc , capping a deal for the two firms to develop and combine products that will enable Windows applications to run on desktop Unix systems . |
| 27 | Kasparov , the 30-year-old from Russia whose title seems impregnable , is hot favourite at 2/9 and William Hill has already taken a £6,000 bet on him . |
| 28 | The Prince of Wales , who like the Sultan has a passion for polo , has already taken a close interest in the environmental impact of destruction of the world 's rainforests , a key factor in global warming . |
| 29 | Gorbachev has already taken the West by surprise by agreeing to a reduction of intermediate nuclear weapons and then suggesting further reductions in long-range missile systems . |
| 30 | The smash sequel has already taken the United States by storm and is now doing the same here . |