Example sentences of "have [adv] taken an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 2 | Helen Carpenter has always taken an interest in clothes and has a good eye for colour but , approaching 40 , she felt it was time to rethink some areas of her looks . |
| 3 | She has always taken an interest in youth organisations and finds time to be treasurer of the West Bank Scouts movement . |
| 4 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 5 | The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters . |
| 6 | Jonathan Swift , despite his attitude toward Stephen Duck , had already taken an interest in Constantia Grierson who had trained as a midwife . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just taken an aerobics class and did n't have time to change . ’ |
| 8 | Even before the Iran-Iraq war began in 1980 , Iraq had always taken an active role in Gulf affairs and those of the Arab world in general , especially in relation to palestine . |
| 9 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 10 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 11 | I have long taken an interest in nineteenth-century history . ’ |
| 12 | In the midst of the political , and often violent , turmoil experienced in Sri Lanka in recent years , the Lanka Guardian is one of the few independent newspapers that have consistently taken an ethical , non-partisan stand on national and international issues . |