Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Closer to home the constant noise through the night has taken a lot of people in Abingdon by surprise . |
| 32 | But this first night has taken a lot of work . |
| 33 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Even Richard Branson had to take his Virgin group private with Japanese backing to prosper , while Anita Roddick 's Body Shop , riding the environmental bandwagon , has taken a hammering of late in the stock market . |
| 37 | Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets . |
| 38 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 39 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 40 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 41 | Leo Castelli has taken the occasion of all this Guggenmania to mount a show exploring plans for two of the other projected Guggenheims those for Bilbao , Spain , and for Salzburg , Austria . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Meanwhile , Murray Johnstone has taken the approach of cutting its initial charge to 1 per cent and always dealing on the full spread . |
| 45 | It is a strange thing continuing to do something by choice which has taken the lives of your close friends … |
| 46 | Since Chapter 10 was written , the American political scientist Robert Axelrod ( working partly in collaboration with W. D. Hamilton , whose name has cropped up on so many pages of this book ) , has taken the idea of reciprocal altruism on in exciting new directions . |
| 47 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 48 | William Bullock 's description being comprehensive , the writer has taken the liberty of adapting this to include details from the French National Archives . |
| 49 | Moving across the Pennines from Liverpool , Wright has taken the helm of a Polytechnic with 1200 staff , 8000 students from 35 different countries and an annual income of around £30 million . |
| 50 | Belbin has taken the analysis of group roles further and argues that up to nine roles can be identified in a work group . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 53 | That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything . |
| 54 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Here too history has always been the problem not the solution — which is why both structuralism and poststructuralism can be positioned within the broad trajectory of a post-war Marxism that has taken the form of a sustained enquiry into concepts of history and even the very possibility of its conceptualization . |
| 58 | ( 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 . ) |
| 59 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 60 | Higher education within further education has also grown apace and has taken the form of both vocational and non-vocational provision following the creation of the polytechnics and the merging of the colleges of education into the further education sector . |