Example sentences of "take of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 2 | Whatever view one takes of the electoral fortunes of the Liberal and Labour Parties before 1914 , the Conservative party was clearly losing — three general election defeats in a row and no significant signs of an electoral revival . |
| 3 | Whatever view one takes of the origins of the incest taboos , it would be intellectually shoddy simply to ignore these data . |
| 4 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
| 6 | His contention is that much of the slump in mainframe revenues has been mis-attributed to downsizing mania whereas the recession should take of the blame — delay in large capital projects gives the impression that mainframes are in more trouble then they actually are , he suggests . |
| 7 | This means that ‘ The French system of detailed target planning involves … the toleration of agreements between firms to fix the share each will take of the planned expansion ’ ( Cohen , 1969 , pp. 71–2 ) . |
| 8 | The baronetcy was a reward for acts of loyalty or oppression , depending upon which view you took of a small rebellion in the 1720s . |
| 9 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
| 10 | And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her , and he did eat … |
| 11 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 12 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 13 | He insisted that there was no fundamental change in the view the British public took of the monarchy and that the Queen had not been put under pressure by the Government to pay taxes but had volunteered . |
| 14 | Cnut 's taking of a second , imperial , crown may well have been stimulated not only by a position in Scandinavia which emulated that of Swegen , but by achievements in Britain which lay firmly in a tradition established by the greatest of his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors . |
| 15 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 16 | Physical possession was taken of every room in the palace and a straight staff was handed to the new pope as well as the keys of the basilica and of the palace . |
| 17 | Common Law treated a contract as voidable if made under duress , i.e. threats of violence to life or limb ; it took no account of more subtle forms of pressure — the unfair advantage taken of a man in distressed circumstances , the influence exercised in certain relations , such as that of a guardian and his former ward , or solicitor and client . |
| 18 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 19 | The same view must be taken of a claim for compensation for the wrongful repudiation of such an agreement as the basis for such compensation is the failure to comply with a contractual obligation . |
| 20 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 21 | The solution is to restrict the sample in one or both of two ways , as follows : a ) stratified samples : in this case , a random sample is taken of a particular " strata " ( or part ) of the total relevant population . |
| 22 | The practical effects on the reporting unit can be seen more readily when a proprietary view is taken of a group of companies . |
| 23 | Advantage was taken of a double reactor shutdown to install some common carbon dioxide system modifications . |
| 24 | Close account has also been taken of a Scottish Office Education Department report , Core skills by design , and of work in the rest of the UK . |
| 25 | It would have outlawed abortions in all cases except where pregnancy threatened a woman 's life , no exceptions being made for pregnancy resulting from rape or incest , and no account being taken of a woman 's ill-health or poverty . |
| 26 | Consequently at a US National Security Council meeting of 9 July 1953 , although note was taken of a report which recommended " greater independence and greater responsibility in the area by the United States vis-à-vis Britain " , it was still thought necessary to add an important rider : Capitalize on such elements of strength as remain to the British in the area by such support of United Kingdom positions as may be consistent with U.S. principles and policy objectives . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | In assessing the value of the action no account is to be taken of a possible but unadmitted finding of contributory negligence , costs or interest . |
| 29 | Fortunately photographs were taken of the original carvings ( above ) |
| 30 | For those who only need relatively local stations , advantage can be taken of the fact that nearly all FM stations now radiate , either slant-polarised or circularly polarised signals , so that a vertical dipole , completely non-directional in the horizontal plane , gives as much signal as a horizontal one . |