Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 2 | But even for the Iranians the Hellenistic era meant a change in appreciation : the prophet Zoroaster took the place of King Cyrus as the most characteristic Iranian figure . |
| 3 | Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise . |
| 4 | On the economy , on Europe and on support for the new leadership , Labour took a giant step towards becoming the Party the people will trust to govern Britain . |
| 5 | Labour took the offensive . |
| 6 | Private enterprise is normally a Conservative watchword , but when Labour took the initiative with ‘ Vote Milburn ’ posters on Darlington buses it was ‘ propaganda ’ , according to one Tory councillor . |
| 7 | The doctrine of operationalism took a particularly extreme view on this issue by stipulating that the meaning of a concept consisted in the operations required to measure it . |
| 8 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |
| 9 | Those remaining in the original syndicat took the view that they comprised the élite of the trade and , by protecting the élite , the syndicat would achieve the best possible image for Champagne . |
| 10 | The home side took a sensational lead after only four minutes . |
| 11 | Adrian Littlejohn had given United side a 61st minute lead to make up for two earlier misses from Brian Deane as the home side took a grip on the game . |
| 12 | The Lancashire side took the lead in the ninth minute through Kath Jackson with Orpington 's Helen Morgan equalizing 10 minutes into the second half . |
| 13 | In the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts , advances on each side took the form of genetic mutations arising and being favoured by natural selection . |
| 14 | At first , industrial action took the form of short strikes — the unions ' traditional weapon since the early fifties ( although by the spring of 1968 the level of picketing and violence was unusually high ) . |
| 15 | Then a productive partnership between Paul Burn ( 63 not out ) and Brett Montgomery ( 72 not out ) added an unfinished 135 , when bad light took the players from the field , never to return . |
| 16 | A few brief comments need to be made , however , about why the research took the form it did . |
| 17 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 18 | The UN was furious , and Japan 's new international boldness took a knock . |
| 19 | The barman took the dive for cover as half the bar-counter went the way of all flesh , only faster . |
| 20 | The title of Sports Reporter of the Year went to Oliver Holt of the Liverpool Daily Post and Martin Birchall of sister paper the Liverpool Echo took the title of Photographer of the Year . |
| 21 | Fear took a firm grip on Rose 's stomach . |
| 22 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 23 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 24 | In some parts of the country it has been the practice to sell freehold land for building , and to take the price in the form of a perpetual rentcharge created by the purchaser ; this practice took the place of the more common building lease . |
| 25 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 26 | His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design . |
| 27 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 28 | The sun was warm on my back , but the south-easterly wind took the edge off the stifling heat . |
| 29 | It was shortly before ten o clock this mornng that an inmate took a civiliam employee hostage at Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes.Unconfirmed reports say the prisoner was on remand on a robbery charge , but was unarmned when the hostage was taken . |
| 30 | The imp took the pipe out of his mouth . |