Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 2 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 3 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 4 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 5 | It has already taken almost two months to prepare the document and get it endorsed internally . |
| 6 | It is not yet clear exactly how it would expand in this area , but the steps it has already taken are illuminating . |
| 7 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 8 | What we can say is that where pollution control has been attempted it has usually taken a crude and simple form . |
| 9 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're in the WH Smith Top 40 and it has only taken us four years to get there , ’ says Tom White of makers Upstarts . |
| 11 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 12 | And of the direction it has now taken . |
| 13 | Italy 's intellectual and creative centre , it has always taken both sides of any argument and its contradictions are everywhere reflected in its art and in its culture . |
| 14 | Interesting high-profile autobiographies that drop names like confetti : in Well , I Forget The Rest ( Hutchinson , £17.99 ) , Quentin Crewe , thrice-married , confesses : ‘ It has never taken me longer than a week-end to fall in love , usually less . ’ |
| 15 | It 's just taken for granted . |
| 16 | If I 've got to print them off from my computer and the computer 's er not exactly in bits but it 's just taken apart a bit at the moment so I need to put it back together again and print them off . |
| 17 | yeah it looks a real treat it does and it 's just taken that Cuprinol nicely but mind you I did n't put it up too thick I well it 's had two coats so it does , it looks a treat so er I 'm a I 'm very pleased with it anyway and er the woman there , Rita |