Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [art] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she took the form of a crow , sitting quietly by as the soldiers went into the fray . |
| 2 | Travelling by night she took the form of a mortal nurse , the better to prey on children and suck their blood . |
| 3 | One of them takes the form of an almost completely restored mining village , complete with a stream-driven miners ' cage , ironworks , a bakery selling delicious break baked on the spot , as well as other ships and an ‘ antique ’ house suitably equipped — i.e. with a black-leaded range and |
| 4 | They took the form of both the grandmother and father doubting the decision and persuading her to change her mind ; and from medical advisors and social workers seeking to persuade her to keep the child . |
| 5 | They took the form of in-depth discussions not only of environmental scanning itself ; but also of the analysis and interpretation of the retrieved information , and its use in strategic decision making . |
| 6 | They took the form of dictionaries , with lists of subject-matters and their associated meanings . |
| 7 | The empowering of the Spirit for her took the form of risk , misunderstandings and downright difficulties . |
| 8 | And in some cases they take a form sufficiently extreme that investigators have been led to speak of separate languages or varieties for the two sexes . |
| 9 | They take the form of witches and fairies , beasts and beauties , villains and rescuers . |
| 10 | Wary men should attempt a glimpse of such a girl 's feet , should she appear by their fireside , for if they take the form of hooves it is wiser to flee . |
| 11 | Sometimes they comprise a single identifiable scene or group of figures , and sometimes they take the form of a series of tableaux . |
| 12 | We shall be concerned here to establish what the main kinds are , and also to ask why they take the form , and occur in the species , that they do . |
| 13 | Now we have seen the main systems of breeding we can ask again why they take the form they do , and why some species are monogamous , others polygynous , others polyandrous . |
| 14 | They take the form of a context-concept which prevents the overlap of perceptions . |
| 15 | Rather they take the form of the greater danger of an intensification of the wage-price-expectations spiral which would result from an expansion of demand . |
| 16 | It takes the form of a stone tent , to which his widow intended to attach camel-bells ; a small crucifix , incongruously superimposed upon it , fails to redeem it from its bizarre and Bedouin appearance . |
| 17 | But oxygen does perform one function that bring–benefit to all of life ; not when it is in its usual form , but when it takes the form of ozone . |
| 18 | It takes the form not just of arched entrances , as at Brussels Midi ( 1869 ) , Zurich North-East ( 1873 ) , and Budapest East ( 1881 ) , but also of arched lunette windows which define the building they pierce , as in the Paris stations Gare de l'Est ( 1852 ) , Gare Montparnasse ( 1852 ) , and Gare du Nord ( 1864 ) , and at London King 's Cross ( 1852 ) . |
| 19 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 20 | It takes the form of two parallel fluorescent tubes bridged at one end . |
| 21 | Most often , it takes the form of a white colt who will nip the heels of would-be thieves , and chase them from the trees . |
| 22 | It takes the form of a painted triptych , eleven feet high , and is signed by Melchior Salabuss and dated 1588 . |
| 23 | Erected in 1700 it takes the form of two busts on a wide plinth , flanked by Ionic columns and surmount by a pediment . |
| 24 | It takes the form of a dark , slightly raised lump — perhaps an existing mole which enlarges and bleeds . |
| 25 | With writers it takes the form of writing . |
| 26 | It takes the form of a long skyline-ridge linking five distinct summits , the whole rising abruptly and in complete isolation from a flat moorland . |
| 27 | Like Beinn Eighe , it takes the form of a long ridge with several summits , its full traverse involving a major expedition that will live in the memory for ever . |
| 28 | In the case of ‘ I promise ’ it takes the form of ‘ But you promised ’ . |
| 29 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |
| 30 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |