Example sentences of "[noun] have take [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remains are scanty and conjecture has to take the place of evidence . |
| 2 | Obviously your heart has taken a hell of a pounding . |
| 3 | William Bullock 's description being comprehensive , the writer has taken the liberty of adapting this to include details from the French National Archives . |
| 4 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 5 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Murray Johnstone has taken the approach of cutting its initial charge to 1 per cent and always dealing on the full spread . |
| 7 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 8 | A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell . |
| 9 | Moving across the Pennines from Liverpool , Wright has taken the helm of a Polytechnic with 1200 staff , 8000 students from 35 different countries and an annual income of around £30 million . |
| 10 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 11 | Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing . |
| 12 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 13 | These larger units have taken the form of ‘ cooperative combines ’ run by nominees from the control committees of member cooperatives . |
| 14 | It will have been observed that nearly all the cases in this chapter arising from industrial disputes have taken the form of actions against individual workers or trade union officials . |
| 15 | The familiar brand names with their images have taken the place of statues and icons and the things people used to look at . |
| 16 | ‘ Terry Yorath has to take a lot of credit . |
| 17 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |
| 18 | The court heard that the child had taken a bottle of Phenol , also known as carbolic acid , while unsupervised , and sipped some . |
| 19 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
| 20 | Chartered accountants Touche Ross have taken the whole of the 12,000 sq ft fourth floor and is planning to move in later this summer . |
| 21 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 22 | Short has taken the example of the Soviet chess school , where an uncompromising will to win takes precedence . |
| 23 | EUROPE 's video war has taken a series of bizarre new twists as the European Community 's new rules on imports of video recorders from Japan produce results in the market place that nobody predicted . |
| 24 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 25 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 26 | The intervention has taken the form of more or less open ministerial arm-twisting rather than the invoking of statutory powers . |
| 27 | As the general secretary of the CISL put it , ‘ In the years 1965–66 , especially , a process of rationalization in the industries caused serious tensions to arise and was the cause of a new awareness of the problems of working life , this process having taken the form of a balance of forces highly unfavourable to the worker ’ ( Reggio , quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 520 ) . |
| 28 | Rehearsals started on 27 July , and Martin Browne had taken the precaution of advising the cast not to ask the author to elucidate any of the dialogue ; one actress disregarded the advice and asked Eliot what one of her lines meant . |
| 29 | Between 8 and 12 May 5 Corps had taken the surrender of the six assorted groups of Cossacks , White Russians , Caucasians and Ukrainians referred to in Chapter One . |
| 30 | Between 8 and 12 May , as we saw in Chapter One , 5 Corps had taken the surrender of six groups originating from territories controlled by the Soviet Union . |