Example sentences of "has taken [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " 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 | A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell . |
| 3 | The Commission has shown that it is able to act with relative speed under this procedure and has taken a variety of actions under it , including ordering a party to supply another party , refusing to allow undertakings to acquire further shares in a company in a takeover situation , ordering the cessation of predatory pricing and an order requiring the execution of a detailed supply agreement under which the Commission was to be notified of any price changes by the offending party or any case where it was unable to fulfil orders . |
| 4 | However , a student who has performed outstandingly well in the HNC/HND examinations or has taken a combination of units particularly well matched with the requirements of the degree course may be considered for exemption from appropriate parts ( normally up to half ) of the second-year ( or the part-time equivalent ) of the degree course . |
| 5 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office has taken a number of initiatives on homelessness , as the hon. Gentleman knows . |
| 7 | Therefore the Commission has taken a number of actions to attempt to minimise its occurrence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The School has taken a number of steps to maintain these numbers by continual monitoring and updating the programmes it offers ; the Financial Studies degrees have recently been re-structured to make them more attractive to students wishing to enter the financial services industry ; Mathematics continues to expand the portfolio of the degree combination it offers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He sleeps on the floor , rises at 4.10am , is in his own words ‘ fanatical ’ about dusting , and has taken a vow of chastity and celibacy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But this first night has taken a lot of work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Closer to home the constant noise through the night has taken a lot of people in Abingdon by surprise . |
| 17 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 18 | This hardly counts as internal fertilisation , but the sea-horse , a shorter relative of the pipe-fish that swims with its body held vertically and not horizontally , has taken the principle of male-brooding considerably further . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Belbin has taken the analysis of group roles further and argues that up to nine roles can be identified in a work group . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Outside London and the South-East , mass unemployment persists even among ‘ prime-age males ’ , and much of the increase in employment has taken the form of low-paid , so-called ‘ part-time ’ work usually undertaken by women in addition to their child-rearing and ‘ community care ’ activities . |
| 23 | ( I am not entirely clear about the wording of the sentence which I have emphasised , but I think the sense is that the accused can be convicted of obtaining by deception , whether the offence has taken the form of larceny by a trick or obtaining by false pretences . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that Pipe has taken the training of jump horses into an entirely different dimension . |