Example sentences of "[not/n't] taken [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 2 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 3 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 4 | Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere . |
| 5 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 6 | When the p cos the press have been there I mean they ha they had their own stand , they 've not taken a photograph have they ? |
| 7 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 8 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 9 | Because saves are not taken a target with only 1 wound will be slain if it takes damage , there is therefore no need to roll the D4 to decide the number of wounds . |
| 10 | Had he not taken a vow of celibacy ? |
| 11 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 12 | Earlier , it emerged that the duke had been forced to vacate his seat alongside other Tory peers in the Lords during Tuesday 's second reading debate on the contentious government bill — because he had not taken an oath of allegiance to the Queen . |
| 13 | From the point of view of cost-effectiveness and efficiency , it would have been surprising had the new Victoria Authority not taken an initiative . |
| 14 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 15 | If the Justice of the Forest discovered that a wood was without a woodward , or that a woodward had not taken the oath or had not appeared at the Forest Eyre to be sworn , or neglected his duty , or committed trespasses in the forest , the wood in question was seized for the king , but the owner was usually allowed to recover it on payment of a fine . |
| 16 | MORE THAN two million Britons living abroad have not taken the opportunity to vote in this election . |
| 17 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 18 | I believe it 's a necessary reform , it 's a pity that the government have not taken the opportunity of change in the number of seats to bring some measure of proportionality to the British European elections . |
| 19 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 20 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
| 21 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 22 | Her dressmakers realized too late that they had not taken the size of the coach into consideration when they had designed the ivory silk wedding gown with its 25-foot-long train . |
| 23 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 24 | Lady Wyndham had not taken the decision at all well , and the scene which had followed was one that Laura preferred to forget . |
| 25 | But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him . |
| 26 | And there were reports yesterday that some of the major clients have not taken the news of the merger well . |
| 27 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 28 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |
| 29 | If everything he had projected on to Zoser was true , or a true picture of his own feelings , why had he not taken the action upon himself ? |
| 30 | One has to admit , nevertheless , that geographers as a group have not taken the lead in the interdisciplinary study of the human environment . |