Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 7 | A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell . |
| 8 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 9 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |
| 10 | The court heard that the child had taken a bottle of Phenol , also known as carbolic acid , while unsupervised , and sipped some . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 14 | The intervention has taken the form of more or less open ministerial arm-twisting rather than the invoking of statutory powers . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In all the examples cited so far the dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition has taken the form of showing that certain procedures abolish the latter while leaving the former intact . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets . |
| 19 | However , if what has happened is that the person has Taken the Side of the Other , then there need not have been attitude-change in the traditional sense . |
| 20 | Our discussion of semantic constituency has taken no account of whether the elements under consideration are parts of words , words , or sequences of words . |
| 21 | Closer to home the constant noise through the night has taken a lot of people in Abingdon by surprise . |
| 22 | But this first night has taken a lot of work . |
| 23 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 24 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 25 | Th the Crown Court 's taken the place of the Assizes , I think , and then |
| 26 | Therefore the Commission has taken a number of actions to attempt to minimise its occurrence . |
| 27 | Belbin has taken the analysis of group roles further and argues that up to nine roles can be identified in a work group . |
| 28 | Honor had had no idea that there was a woman in Timothy 's life and the news had taken every vestige of colour out of her face . |
| 29 | But the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , who once lived in the colony , said the governor had taken a series of moves which were supported in the territory and should be supported in Britain . |
| 30 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |