Example sentences of "who have taken [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sprightly priest , who has taken over the parish of St Paulinus in St Helen Auckland in County Durham , said : ‘ As long as I am fit as the way I am now I will continue to serve the community . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 3 | If some kind person could send us a copy I have some very keen would-be knitters who would be extremely grateful , not least myself who has taken on the task of teaching them . |
| 4 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 5 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 6 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 7 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 8 | César Gavira Trujillo , 43 , who had held office as Finance Minister and Interior Minister under the current President , Virgilio Barco Vargas , and who had taken over the election campaign of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmineto after the latter 's assassination on Aug. 18 , 1989 [ see p. 36844 ] , received an estimated 60 per cent of the vote and comfortably defeated his five rivals . |
| 9 | McCoist , who had taken over the captaincy from the injured Richard Gough , shrugged his shoulders and said : ‘ We 've grown used to all those injuries and learned to accept them . |
| 10 | During 1795–6 she engaged in a one-sided correspondence with the radical William Godwin , who had taken over the role vacated by Eccles . |
| 11 | The opposition Fiji Labour National Federation Parties , led by Adi Kuini Bavadra ( the widow of the ousted Prime Minister who had taken over the party leadership after her husband 's death from cancer in 1989 ) , denounced the Constitution as racist and anti-democratic and announced its refusal to participate in elections held under its auspices . |
| 12 | Mugica was reputed to be a Marxist Leninist who had taken over the ETA leadership after the killing of his less hardline predecessor , Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe , in 1976 [ see p. 28087 ] . |
| 13 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |
| 14 | It also demanded a change in the way in which the government was appointed ( the Fifth Congress having given the President the power to appoint ministers ) and a new Prime Minister in place of Yeltsin , who had taken on the post himself in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 15 | The ex-wife , who had taken quite a shine to him , kept it reserved . |
| 16 | There might be no ready and easy solution to the problems that taxi drivers face , but there are those , such as the Peace Train organisation , who have taken up the taxi drivers ' case and are concerned to alter public opinion and attitudes generally in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | A personalised scroll , a car stickers and a copy of the book Investigating the Seashore are among the benefits enjoyed by people who have taken up the offer . |
| 18 | Legal authorities who have taken over the case have imposed a blackout on information and until their investigations are complete and the case is ready to go to trial , probably in two to three months time , no-one can say how many fakes were involved , what their real value was , nor indeed how many people worked in the ring . |
| 19 | The cut in mortgage tax relief will not , however , affect elderly people — aged over 65 — who have taken out a mortgage loan as part of a Home Income Plan in order to buy a life annuity . |
| 20 | Sally the lass who 's taken over the buying for precision bearings , is a great lass got on great with her , and Richard . |