Example sentences of "have taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 3 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 4 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 5 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 6 | IN THE Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals at Sadler 's Wells , the former world champion , Anatoly Karpov , has taken a 2-1 lead after his opponent , Artur Yusupov , resigned the adjourned third game of their match yesterday . |
| 7 | Similar work in the United States , he says , has taken a multi-million dollar , five-year programme to achieve . |
| 8 | Olshan makes Susan a powerful , smart , sensual woman moving surefootedly through the opulent Westchester County jungle where the Kaplans live : she issues orders to the au pair , knows the Manhattan-Hartsdale train times , and deals honestly with a husband who has taken a sexual vacation from her on the very afternoon of the Rosen drowning . |
| 9 | If they sign an ‘ income received ’ deal , they will only receive their proportion of the royalties sent to their UK publisher , after the foreign publisher has taken a percentage . |
| 10 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 11 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 12 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |
| 13 | Shocked has taken a brave step . |
| 14 | MIKE SPRACKLEN , who coached British crews to gold medals at the last two Olympics , has taken a £30,000-a-year job in Canadian rowing after alleging he was snubbed by the British sport despite offering his services free . |
| 15 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 16 | In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks . |
| 17 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 18 | McKinsey , a consultancy , has taken a different approach . |
| 19 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 20 | This has taken a heavy toll of British Tornadoes , which pass low over the airfields to deliver their JP-233 runway-busting mines and bombs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The recession on the east coast has taken a heavy toll of banks there . |
| 23 | Our discussion has taken a broad view of qualified defences , commenting also on some qualified defences which might be recognized but which do not feature in contemporary English law . |
| 24 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 25 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 26 | Duggan has taken a ski-ing holiday in the United States while the tricky negotiations were taking place this weekend . |
| 27 | Dean Richards has taken a well-earned holiday in Cyprus — and is unfit , anyway . |
| 28 | Only days ahead of a general election in Iran , Teheran has taken a strident and uncompromising stance against the Mujahideen Khalq opposition group and its patron , Iraq . |
| 29 | It has taken a respectable 15 seats , but Signor Orlando won the personal endorsement of nearly one in five of all voters in Palermo itself . |
| 30 | Harry Ramsden 's has taken a third of the equity of a new company , Bluelane , capitalised at £750,000 , which will manage the Hong Kong restaurant and franchise further outlets in the Pacific Rim area . |