Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 2 | Private money tends to take the form of individual donations from friends and organisations associated with Highlander . |
| 3 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 4 | An obvious extension of head-counting research involves taking the fact that a TV set is switched onto ITV , and finding out whether anyone is actually in front of it watching it . |
| 5 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 6 | And , it 's only if this committee decides to take a hand in pushing environmental issues forward , that they will actually come about , except , almost by accident . |
| 7 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 8 | Indeed , for Benjamin the ‘ rise of the masses ’ as a historical and cultural theme tends to take the place occupied in most Marxist theories by the revolutionary role of the proletariat . |
| 9 | Another journal has taken a year to respond on more than one occasion . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 12 | Our discussion of semantic constituency has taken no account of whether the elements under consideration are parts of words , words , or sequences of words . |
| 13 | But it was not until the next Sunday , October 28 , the day after another climber had taken a message to Navarradonda , that a small ground search was mounted . |
| 14 | I am told by British Gas that that is untrue , and that the hon. Gentleman has taken the number of inquiries and complaints made to the Gas Consumers Council . |
| 15 | Governments of all persuasions have always bought in some services , but this Government have taken the process further . |
| 16 | It is good that this union has taken the trouble to prepare this report with so much E C legislation in the pipeline . |
| 17 | It had to be performed a second time , after the British Consul had taken the couple 's oaths on his diary instead of the Bible . |
| 18 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 19 | Whereas the old system had taken a percentage of the harvest , the new one levied tax on registered landowners as a percentage of the assessed monetary value of the land , 3 per cent in the first instance , plus a local government levy . |
| 20 | If they sign an ‘ income received ’ deal , they will only receive their proportion of the royalties sent to their UK publisher , after the foreign publisher has taken a percentage . |
| 21 | The Scottish Office has taken a number of initiatives on homelessness , as the hon. Gentleman knows . |
| 22 | Basically the burden of the Test Act was that all office holders erm all holders of public office had to take an oath of allegiance and had to erm take the sacraments in the Church of England otherwise they could n't hold public office . |
| 23 | In 1976 central government did take an initiative to try to influence local policy-making in favour of the long-stay dependent groups . |
| 24 | A person with impaired hearing has to take a lot more strain than people with normal hearing . |
| 25 | Very helpfully the Official Solicitor continued to take an interest in the proceedings as amicus curiae . |
| 26 | A ricocheting bullet chanced to take the front from the cigarette machine . |
| 27 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |
| 28 | The staff at Inside Job like to take the time to help each customer select the appropriate style , fabric , carpet , wallpaper , paint , upholstery and any other soft furnishings that are needed . |
| 29 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 30 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |