Example sentences of "taken for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 2 | The drinking public was now aware they were being taken for a ride by the brewing barons . |
| 3 | Sensitive leniency is not the only principle operating , however , for constables also need to avoid being ‘ taken for a ride ’ by an unrealistic excuse which makes them look foolish . |
| 4 | Whilst Harry 's replies were being vetted , his photo was taken for a false identity card , and his uniform and shoes exchanged for a civilian outfit . |
| 5 | Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’ |
| 6 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 7 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 8 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 9 | If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought . |
| 10 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 11 | If he allowed the headstall to be put on him , he was rewarded by being put out in the paddock , or brought in for his dinner , or taken for a ride . |
| 12 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 13 | After lectures from two British Airways pilots and a clinical psychologist , 80 people were taken for a short flight . |
| 14 | A stuck-up snob , hoping to be taken for a member of the ‘ upper class ’ having carefully studied Nancy Mitford 's Noblesse Oblige , will remain silent . |
| 15 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
| 16 | I thought Lee had been taken for a ride , and said so . |
| 17 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 18 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |
| 19 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 20 | ‘ So — British and Cosmopolitan was taken for a small fortune — and taken for fools too by the seem of it . |
| 21 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 22 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 23 | Secondly , could an outsider have walked into the Lodge quite openly on Friday night before eleven o'clock and been taken for a member by anyone who happened to come across him ? ’ |
| 24 | She recalled an occasion when she was being taken for a walk in the park . |
| 25 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 26 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 27 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 28 | TAKEN FOR A RIDE |
| 29 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 30 | It was he who blushed now at being taken for a country bumpkin . |