Example sentences of "taken [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you 've taken the drug , your next decision could be influenced by that drug . |
| 2 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 3 | Mind you I 've taken the precaution of leaving all my nursing manuals at home . |
| 4 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 5 | Why have you taken the Bernini lecture away from me ? |
| 6 | ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire . |
| 7 | The new varieties and modern techniques that she and other growers use have certainly taken the anxiety out of apple growing , a subject wreathed in mystery , according to traditional literature . |
| 8 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 9 | Hitachi have also taken the trouble to make the control large enough to operate when wearing thick gloves . |
| 10 | But on the last Page of the novel ‘ life had taken the place of dialectics ’ , and Raskolnikov is on his way home . |
| 11 | After the dying Stepan Verkhovensky has taken the sacrament he says ‘ however , tomorrow — Tomorrow we shall all set off . ’ |
| 12 | Especially as voiced by an American who had disloyally taken the wrong side in a war just successfully completed ‘ for democracy ’ , the sentiments must have seemed — in 1948 , when The Pisan Cantos appeared — nothing short of shameless ! |
| 13 | With its enthusiasm for acronyms , the exchange has taken the ‘ Taurus ’ title for its computerised settlement masterplan from the full title of the scheme , the ponderously named Transfer and Automated Registration of Uncertificated Stock system . |
| 14 | Had either of the teams won , they would have taken the League leadership . |
| 15 | Had Germany taken the ‘ purist ’ line after the war , we should be without the wonders of Bruchsal and the Residenz at Wurzburg , and the great churches of Nurnberg would look like the clean , well-designed — but totally anaemic - interiors of those in Kassel and Stuttgart . |
| 16 | Surely the Pharisees themselves should be judged , if not charitably , at least fairly : from their own literature ( which the Jewish and Christian scholars referred to above have taken the trouble to study ) rather than from the taunts of their opponents . |
| 17 | Latymer had taken the lead after 10 minutes but , despite playing the better football throughout , were beaten by two scrambled goals from Rodney Walshe , one just before half-time and the other 30 seconds from the end . |
| 18 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 19 | Inspired by the success of Film On Four and the ITV companies ' recent forays into film-making ( like Granada 's My Left Foot ) , the BBC has finally taken the plunge into the feature-film market , in partnership with Palace Pictures and British Screen . |
| 20 | And there were reports yesterday that some of the major clients have not taken the news of the merger well . |
| 21 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |
| 22 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 23 | They hoped to arrange a meeting with Mr Mugabe , who in his capacity as Chancellor of the university was believed to have taken the decision to close the campus . |
| 24 | The universities had taken the opposite view . |
| 25 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 26 | He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John ! |
| 27 | The anthem , flower-presentation , long walk and interminable announcements all took place after the teams had taken the field , where they were forced to kick their heels in a neat line for nearly a quarter of an hour during which the chanteuse and the French Army choir six times exhorted the crowd : ‘ To Arms ! ’ . |
| 28 | Nick Skelton , on Burmah Serenade , and Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on Walzerkoenig , could have taken the prize , for the rider clearing the highest course , but each made one error . |
| 29 | ‘ Joisey ’ is still the butt of jokes made by New York sophisticates , but its political leaders , like the outgoing Governor Kean , now have national stature and have taken the lead in forming social policy for the rest of America on welfare reform , school financing , public housing and care of the environment . |
| 30 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |