Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 2 | The competition to determine the dominant College of Magic takes the form of a violent contest of magic in which gladiator wizards and their followers battle to defeat their rivals . |
| 3 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 4 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
| 5 | He — in his little bit , sitting on a different spindly chair — had the presence of mind to take the opportunity of delivering an onslaught on the Snow school of criticism , the stranglehold they have , their implication that there are worthwhile characters who ‘ matter ’ and others that can not have any importance . |
| 6 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 7 | The Committee of Management took the advice and went to the High Court and as a result the proposal was stopped . |
| 8 | Gollum can not now resist grabbing it for himself , he succeeds but leans too far and falls into the Cracks of Doom taking the Ring with him . |
| 9 | it 's a waste of time taking an umbrella anyway |
| 10 | Romance , in his novels , is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance . |
| 11 | Synthesizing any new protein molecule from scratch takes a matter of minutes . |
| 12 | Patrese on pole took the lead again , but Mansell went flying past within seconds and from then on , there was no stopping no catching him . |
| 13 | He obviously still took us for a couple holidaying together , and his embarrassment at intruding took the form of ignoring my presence . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal took the view that it remained unclear whether the court had so resiled . |
| 15 | In other words , compressing one minute of video took an hour and a half of real time . |
| 16 | Three dozen assorted fight fans and hangers-on and a dozen Mexican sportswriters and cameramen milled around listlessly as the self-proclaimed King of Boxing took the stage to deliver another high decibel paean of praise to hype his latest promotion . |
| 17 | The essence of pristine Labour policy had of course , and largely through the influence of Tawney , found its way into the official Hadow Report of 1926 : ‘ Selection by differentiation takes the place of selection by elimination . ’ |
| 18 | Let the Town and Country easel from Daler-Rowney take the strain ! |
| 19 | Let the Town and Country easel from Daler-Rowney take the strain ! |
| 20 | All theories of legitimacy take the form of establishing a principle which , while it resides outside power and is independent of it , locates or embeds power in a realm of things beyond the wills of the holders of power : the legitimacy of power stems from its origin . |
| 21 | Sir Adrian believes it is very much the responsibility of a captain of industry to take the lead in such matters and to define the sort of company you want to become . |
| 22 | 1.18 We were asked in paragraph 3 of our terms of reference to take the Kingman Report into consideration . |
| 23 | Words which are meant to be symbols of reality take the place of what they stand for . |
| 24 | This means of discrimination takes the place of visual examination of the area . |
| 25 | It is now commonly agreed that a better way of appraising projects is to use a method of discounting such as discounted cash flow ( DCF ) or net present value ( NPV ) as rate of return takes no account of the timing of receipts . |
| 26 | He swung his talons powerfully forward in the way Minch and Kraal had often described , he pulled back his wings to drop faster through the air , he pushed down towards the shelduck and with a great splash and spray of water took the bird powerfully in his talons . |
| 27 | At the least , the ironworks contributed to the steady clearance of the scrubbier parts of the local woodland ; by the later seventeenth century like the much more wasteful and mobile glass industry of Tudor and Stuart Sussex , they had exhausted much of their best local fuel , and the increased use of coke took the industry elsewhere . |
| 28 | The drop in inflation took every City commentator by surprise . |
| 29 | Students tend to leave towards the end of the season in order to take a vacation before returning to college ; but it is not only amongst this group that turnover levels are high . |
| 30 | Much of Oakeshott 's writing on politics takes the form of a critique of Rationalism in post-Renaissance political thought . |