Example sentences of "[verb] take [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other .
2 Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry .
3 Our discussion of semantic constituency has taken no account of whether the elements under consideration are parts of words , words , or sequences of words .
4 IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE .
5 IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE .
6 IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE .
7 We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen .
8 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 .
9 Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued .
10 Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued .
11 One of the reputations that has taken a bit of a bashing is Sigismond Thalberg 's .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today .
15 A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell .
16 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 .
17 He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts .
18 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 .
19 Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles .
20 The second trend in current conservation thinking concerns the relationship between the programme and its clients or government and land-users , and has taken a number of different forms .
21 This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The Scottish Office has taken a number of initiatives on homelessness , as the hon. Gentleman knows .
25 Therefore the Commission has taken a number of actions to attempt to minimise its occurrence .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Obviously your heart has taken a hell of a pounding .
29 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 .
30 ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’
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