Example sentences of "taken [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen you in the House , and though we have n't met , I have taken rather a fancy to you , and would like if I can to help your career . |
| 2 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 3 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure you would , landlord , but I 've taken rather a fancy to this ale-house of yours . |
| 5 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 6 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 7 | It was surprising the battle was won , for cultural and social symbolism has taken rather a knock in our rootless ‘ can-do ’ free market society . |
| 8 | Taken together the pieces offer points of contact with a formidably quick mind that may suggest ways into the longer and more forbidding time-spans of Carter 's major works . |
| 9 | Taken together the various reviews and studies I have set in hand constitute the most substantial examination of the social security system since the Beveridge report forty years ago . |
| 10 | The car tax was having a very negative effect on car sales and taken together the Chancellor 's proposals could have a positive impact on consumer confidence . ’ |
| 11 | For all diagnostic categories taken together the expected number is 0.60 ( standardised registration ratio=667 ) . |
| 12 | Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division . |
| 13 | Taken together the formal and the informal approaches almost complete our picture of how to understand organisations . |
| 14 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 15 | Taken together the results of the Hausman and Salkever tests suggest that predictive failure is likely to reflect mis-specification and , in particular , the presence of unrecognized simultaneity . |
| 16 | Taken together the Food/drink and Office machinery sectors account for 56% of Scotland 's exports . |
| 17 | Taken together the results from the in vivo and in vitro studies summarised above clearly indicate that the epithelial absorptive capacity of the rat jejunum is appreciably reduced during the days preceding the expulsion of the parasite . |
| 18 | Taken together the three strands of the nursing " package " represented a major attempt to meet future demographic challenges . |
| 19 | My suggestion is that taken together the original and the reformulation are optimally relevant , and hence that the original does contribute towards the relevance of the text . |
| 20 | Launching a savage attack on the ‘ shameful ’ Budget in a cutting speech which silenced Tory backbenchers , Mr Smith said that taken together the tax increases announced in the Budget were one of the biggest hikes ever . |
| 21 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 22 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 23 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 24 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 25 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 26 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 27 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 28 | Bees clamber into its throat and sip a nectar so intoxicating that after they have taken only a little they begin to stagger about . |
| 29 | I 'm told the nursemaid takes the child 's food away from him after he 's taken only a bite or so . |
| 30 | In spite of the difficulties of the War the contractors , Daniel Eadie and Son , had taken only a little over twenty months to complete the work on schedule . |