Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This retailer has now taken it off the shelves whilst Gloucestershire 's Trading Standards Department investigates . |
| 2 | The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ . |
| 3 | Event risk protection has generally taken the form of either protective covenants or a put-at-par option , which is exercisable if specific designated events occur that lead to a deterioration of credit quality rating to non-investment grade level . |
| 4 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , says it plans to use ObjectStore , to develop the next generation of its electronic design automation tools and its Design Framework II product , and Digital Equipment Corp has also taken ObjectStore with plans to use the database as a data repository with its PowerFrame software . |
| 6 | The city of Padua has also taken in hand its rich holdings of ceramics . |
| 7 | The private-eye story has even taken , not one huge lateral leap , but a series of hops which have brought it to British shores . |
| 8 | The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place . |
| 9 | Change has also taken place in the size of practices since the early 1980s . |
| 10 | Some change has inevitably taken place but it has been less significant than many would have predicted . |
| 11 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 12 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 13 | Also , recession has undoubtedly taken its toll . |
| 14 | There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . |
| 15 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 16 | ‘ Considerable office reorganisation has recently taken place at Lyle , ’ explains Ian McCulloch , Company Secretary and Financial Controller . |
| 17 | The University has already taken steps to promote this growth and the Department will play the major role in these activities . |
| 18 | The University has already taken steps to promote this growth and the Department will play the major role in these activities . |
| 19 | DEC has also taken a booth at this week 's SunWorld expo in San Francisco to make an aggressive bid to entice SunOS applications and user to Alpha . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , will use ObjectStore , to develop its next generation electronic design automation tools and Design Framework II products , and DEC has also taken ObjectStore as a data repository with its PowerFrame software . |
| 21 | No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren … |
| 22 | Over the last thirty years or so , a similar evolution by which credit instruments become money has rapidly taken place for the world market economy as a whole . |
| 23 | ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ? |
| 24 | Because it has followed public opinion in the past , the EPA has always taken the view that governments are there to stop people having to run risks , however small . |
| 25 | The Library Association has thus taken a consistent position on censorship over a period of at least 25 years . |
| 26 | Furthermore , most schools are segregated by sex , and the building of boys ' schools has historically taken precedence over building girls ' schools . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Gorbachev has already taken the West by surprise by agreeing to a reduction of intermediate nuclear weapons and then suggesting further reductions in long-range missile systems . |
| 29 | This regional literacy programme has really taken off . |
| 30 | The merits of the programme itself are debated below , but in spite of considerable resources expended , the programme has never taken on its comprehensive scope . |