Example sentences of "have [adv] take " in BNC.

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1 Erm and and they do not consider that the full testing and evaluation erm o of the environmental harm as against the claimed highway benefit , has properly taken place .
2 She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby .
3 Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them .
4 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 .
5 This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 .
6 This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded .
7 A series of sessions has since taken place which involved multi-functional , multi-site teams .
8 As members will know , the exhibition has since taken place with great success , but the absence of the previously planned ceremonials ( dress and food ) at my visit left me disappointed .
9 A Japanese company has since taken out a 17-year patent on the chemical .
10 The home has since taken action to ensure that such an accident does n't happen again .
11 Work has since taken place to make it more secure and some Category A prisoners have gone back ; although not all .
12 Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word .
13 Yesterday Cameron Mackintosh , who as producer has successfully taken Les Mis around the globe , described the moment the musical 's Manchester premier came to a grinding and inglorious halt .
14 Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) .
15 In the last ten years the BDA has successfully taken up many individual cases of discrimination .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Bishop Cahal Daly has argued that the debate on multi-denominational schools has effectively taken people 's attention away from the central issues in Northern Ireland , namely social injustice , fundamental political inequality , and the violence .
19 A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 .
20 After the adjacent layers of atoms have slipped to a greater or less extent , so that the material is deformed in shear , no serious weakening has necessarily taken place , so that broken bonds have reformed with new partners .
21 All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ .
22 But when these rules have become accepted as a matter of convention , then a crisp distinction has necessarily taken hold between arguments about and arguments within the rules .
23 Not that disintegration has entirely taken hold .
24 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 . "
25 It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble .
26 He has obviously taken the Echo 's Fun Fortnight very seriously indeed … perhaps a little too seriously .
27 He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated .
28 Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted .
29 Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government .
30 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 .
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