Example sentences of "[pron] has take [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 2 | as you know with dint of great effort , got er , the er , scheme off the ground , which has taken a lot of , all of us a lot of hard work , er , and we 're proposing other schemes at Bexford House . |
| 3 | It is a strange thing continuing to do something by choice which has taken the lives of your close friends … |
| 4 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 5 | We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen . |
| 6 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 7 | A. M. Fairbairn complained that the clergy had become ‘ more professional than social ’ and the Baptist C. F. Aked attacked ‘ the funny little assistant priest , who has taken the place of the old-fashioned curate ’ , the man who says |
| 8 | She wants companionship but , in order to achieve that , she has to take the risk of trusting someone else and take the risk of getting hurt . |
| 9 | Now listen answer the question I asked you , answer the question I asked you , she has taken a lot of drugs in the past , not Prozac . |
| 10 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 11 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 12 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 13 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 14 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 15 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 16 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 17 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 18 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 19 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 20 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 21 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 22 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 23 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 24 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 25 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 26 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 28 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 29 | The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study . |
| 30 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |