Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ positive vetting ’ questionnaire also queries whether members of the Army Navy or Air Corps take or have ever taken drugs . |
| 2 | But most of us still feel hard-pressed to keep up with those changes that have already taken place . |
| 3 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 4 | This is an area where we can make much more progress and I 'm delighted to see the advances that have already taken place . |
| 5 | In the midst of the political , and often violent , turmoil experienced in Sri Lanka in recent years , the Lanka Guardian is one of the few independent newspapers that have consistently taken an ethical , non-partisan stand on national and international issues . |
| 6 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |
| 7 | The couple , who live in a village in the New Forest , took the baby back to the hospital because they feared they would become too fond of her , but have now taken her back . |
| 8 | Ladbrokes had quoted Francois Boutin 's colt at 40–1 but have now taken him out of their list . |