Example sentences of "have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 3 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 4 | One source of interest can be a description of where the interview has taken place , perhaps a studio , or maybe the artist 's home . |
| 5 | One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche 's garden . |
| 6 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 7 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 8 | Extensive public debate on integrated and segregated education has taken place throughout Ireland . |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 10 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 11 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 12 | Deputy unit manager Phil Brown , who has taken responsibility for the computer system , says : ‘ We can do the stocktake in about half a day with the Psion Organiser . |
| 13 | Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise . |
| 14 | Replacing them at a familial level , the spice-box has taken its place , sometimes simple , sometimes ornate ; a witness to the fragrance of that Sabbath grace that lingers still . |
| 15 | It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , then , that considerable rationalisation of yards , sidings , terminals and lines has taken place . |
| 17 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 18 | THE fight for Cameron 's brewery has taken another twist with the announcement by the Sunderland Vaux Group that they are prepared to buy the Hartlepool brewery . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 20 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 21 | After the dying Stepan Verkhovensky has taken the sacrament he says ‘ however , tomorrow — Tomorrow we shall all set off . ’ |
| 22 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 23 | With its enthusiasm for acronyms , the exchange has taken the ‘ Taurus ’ title for its computerised settlement masterplan from the full title of the scheme , the ponderously named Transfer and Automated Registration of Uncertificated Stock system . |
| 24 | The irony of Mr Skinner 's re-regulation of the airline industry , say Wall Street analysts , is that it comes after the shake-out among domestic carriers has taken place and serves only to reinforce the advantages enjoyed by the surviving majors . |
| 25 | The Pope 's Vicar of Rome , Cardinal Ugo Poletti , has taken to scolding the Christian Democrats for their divisions which may bring victory for the secular parties and the Communists in city elections on 29 October . |
| 26 | Now , 15 per cent of the village regularly uses the telecottage and at least 20 per cent has taken courses there . ’ |
| 27 | The fact is , it works and it has taken United to the top of the Second Division , unbeaten in nine League games . |
| 28 | Very little debate about how to manage it has taken place . |
| 29 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 30 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |