Example sentences of "[Wh det] have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 2 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 3 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 4 | But it seems more plausible to highlight the financial market liberalisation which has taken place in both economies . |
| 5 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 6 | The 140-acre park — which has taken about £2.2 billion and four years to build — will be open from 9am to midnight every day of the year . |
| 7 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
| 8 | We will halt the deterioration which has taken place in the pay and conditions of many public service workers — often through pay settlements which have been arbitrarily imposed upon them . |
| 9 | Much of this can be explained by the cooptation which has taken place through the mechanism of clientelism . |
| 10 | It merely wants the PLO to learn , as the members of the popular movement themselves have learnt , that the strength of the national movement lies in the philosophy which has taken root so strongly in the territories over the 1977–87 decade . |
| 11 | Overall , the liberalisation which has taken place in the architectural profession since the early 1980s does not seem to have had a revolutionary effect . |
| 12 | Much of this expenditure , which has taken such a toll , on both the exchequer and the environment , has been based on a simple assumption which is deeply embedded in agricultural thinking : that excess water is the enemy of good husbandry and must be driven off the land . |
| 13 | I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime . |
| 14 | Arguably the process of centralization which has taken place could be presented as a necessary precursor to the decentralization of power which is desired . |
| 15 | A company with similar beginnings to Star but which has taken a different direction is ACT , based in Birmingham . |
| 16 | The minster leads into the largely undisturbed Georgian town centre , which has taken on a new lease of life under the guidance of the local Civic Society . |
| 17 | It is a strange thing continuing to do something by choice which has taken the lives of your close friends … |
| 18 | The trust 's conservation manager , Dr Charles Beardall , said : ‘ Vegetation which has taken centuries to become established is being wiped out in minutes by these vehicles and important bird colonies are being disturbed . ’ |
| 19 | His career so far has been a lengthy dues-paying climb which has taken him from his Arkansas birthplace to Los Angeles , San Francisco , the US military in Germany and finally London . |
| 20 | John Copians , co-founder of the journal Artforum and ex-director of the museums of Pasadena and Akron , made his debut in the Seventies with Hard Edge abstractions , and in tandem developed a profound interest in the history and aesthetics of photography which has taken him , over the course of the past ten years , to the production of self-portraits executed as universal images . |
| 21 | Local committees or associations fluctuated drastically in numbers in different periods of antislavery history despite the proclamation of the Liverpool society in 1823 that ‘ the present age ’ , in making the organisational discovery of the local philanthropic or reform association , had made the era noteworthy ‘ for the rapid and surprising improvement which has taken place in the moral character and disposition of mankind ’ . |
| 22 | This chapter will concentrate on these ‘ historical sketches ’ as a way of illustrating in general terms the pattern of ‘ de-alignment ’ or the loosening of ties between the press and the political parties which has taken place from the mid-Victorian period onwards . |
| 23 | It can not reproduce all the recording and reporting which has taken place during a pupil 's years of secondary education . |
| 24 | For Japan , which has taken the lead in the Cambodian operation , one more act of generosity might ensure the success of its most ambitious post-war venture into international affairs . |
| 25 | By far the biggest single item is newspaper , which has taken around 18% of landfill volume for 30 years . |
| 26 | But there are signs too that the professional care providers seek to halt the slight trend in reduction which has taken place in the role of the mental hospital . |
| 27 | New hardware technologies addressing emerging markets for personal and consumer-oriented digital image processing solutions will be spawned by SGI 's new digital sight and sound division which has taken the entry-level Indigo model and says it 'll work down from there . |
| 28 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |
| 29 | US deliveries of the Sparcbook 1 began at the end of January , and according to Tadpole chairman , Robert Gilkes , there are already some 160 corporate customers , one of which has taken 40 of them . |
| 30 | The future of the Lawrence Challenge Trophy , awarded to the scorer of the season 's fastest century , was assured when the company which has taken over Walter Lawrence & Co. returned the trophy to the Lawrence family . |