Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [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 . |