Example sentences of "which have [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 2 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 3 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 4 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 5 | The alliance between the groups which exchange women under a sister-exchange marriage rule or under a rule which specifies marriage between a man and his father 's sister 's daughter persists through time because of the felt obligation to arrange , at a future date , the counterpart of a marriage which has already taken place . |
| 6 | As practitioners progress in their careers it becomes increasingly difficult and onerous to remember and record prior experience and achievement in a way which can achieve the type of credit which is often needed ( and is becoming more important in the present climate of belief that individuals should not be required to repeat learning which has already taken place ) . |
| 7 | The company set up a joint venture with Magneti Marelli the Italian firm which has already taken over two big Lucas plants in the Midlands . |
| 8 | CDC 's talks with its OEM RISC Unix system supplier , Silicon Graphics Inc — which has now taken a 10% stake in CDS — started ( unbeknown to CDC at the time , Ousley claims ) in parallel with SGI 's negotiations for its chip supplier , MIPS Computer Systems Inc . |
| 9 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 10 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 11 | The greatest of them is the state , which has everywhere taken on more and more tasks in recent decades which have swollen its administrative archives . |
| 12 | Referring to the meeting which had just taken place in Dublin , Sir Patrick addressed the House of Commons thus : |
| 13 | They managed to convince the authorities that the dolphin kills were bad publicity , and that the release of some dolphins would be seen as partial atonement for the brutal killings which had already taken place . |
| 14 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 15 | The present writer has gone on record elsewhere with the view that most of the ‘ new ’ powers in the Single European Act represented treaty recognition of developments which had already taken place under general treaty powers , in particular Articles 100 and 235 , in areas such as environmental law . |
| 16 | Losses in the three campaigns which had already taken place meant that most of Russia 's rank-and-file soldiers had been recruited recently and that there were not enough officers to train them . |
| 17 | Once the T-bar drag-lift had been invented and installed in Davos in 1934 , it was possible to get to runs , which had previously taken a twenty-minute climb to reach , in half a minute . |
| 18 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 19 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 20 | Details emerged in June of a major military reshuffle which had apparently taken place unannounced during April and May . |
| 21 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 22 | On the way , between these debates , the chapter examines the major changes which have recently taken place in the geography of manufacturing in the UK , and explores the important and continuing debates over how to explain them . |
| 23 | A landscape determined solely by what is most profitable under current conditions would look very different from that which exists today , despite the rapid changes which have recently taken place . |