Example sentences of "taken a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taxation appears to have taken a higher fraction of profits in the United States than in some other countries ( around one-half in the USA in 1960 as against about one-third in Japan ) . |
| 2 | Batty recognises that he could have taken a sharper look at the derivative nature of the designs or examined some of the problems likely to face the company in the future . |
| 3 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 4 | Cannon J. , who delivered his judgment in French , seems to have taken a wider view since he reached the same conclusion without reliance on the maxims of the civil law or the Quebec civil code : ‘ On peut dire que son droit est né en même temps qu'elle . ’ |
| 5 | In recent years however , scientists have taken a greater interest in the exciting possibilities of observing animals in their natural surroundings . |
| 6 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |
| 7 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 8 | But the crash could have been avoided had the pilot taken a safer course , Sheriff Douglas Risk said in his report on an inquiry into the accident held 13 months ago . |
| 9 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
| 10 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 11 | It has taken a closer look at what it pays and what it gets out of its Brussels El Dorado , and it is not happy . |
| 12 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 13 | Some run efficient remedial courses , which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course . |
| 14 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |
| 15 | If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop . |
| 16 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 17 | Marked eels from Europe never reach the Sargasso sea , only their counterparts who had taken a shorter journey to the American mainland . |
| 18 | Other unforeseen difficulties have taken a further 4 per cent , but Remington is confident the contingency reserve will cover it . |
| 19 | The Institute has taken a further tentative step towards opening up its disciplinary hearings to the public , with a recommendation that the Professional Conduct Department should first experiment with fuller reporting of disciplinary cases . |
| 20 | Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components . |
| 21 | In all , 348/742 ( 46% ; 42.8% to 50.1% ) responders had taken a further qualification after leaving school ( fig 2 ) . |
| 22 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 23 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |