Example sentences of "took [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His budget of March 1987 took the standard rate of income tax down to 27p , and in all a huge budget surplus of over £16 billion was recorded . |
| 2 | Later , I took the then editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Screeton , there . |
| 3 | But if we took the highest price of everything then we 're making thousands and thousands and thousands . |
| 4 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 5 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 6 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 7 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 8 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 9 | Immediately after Mr Lamont sat down , the Prime Minister took the rare step of issuing a brief statement , obviously aimed to pour scorn on those who say his days as Chancellor are numbered . |
| 10 | The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received . |
| 11 | Immediately after Mr Lamont sat down , the Prime Minister took the rare step of issuing a brief statement aimed at countering speculation that his days as Chancellor are numbered . |
| 12 | My Lords , erm I I I 'm glad t t to know that a text is readily available er I agree with my Noble Friend that if he took the simple course of comparing the Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as it was printed , he would have run into trouble . |
| 13 | During 1838 and 1839 the latter took the entire amount of 4,719 tons 4 cwt. 6 stones dry weight with a value of £35,302 : 11s. : 4d. ; Royalty paid was £2,712 : 12s. : 8d. , being one-twelfth , but after the deduction of certain expenses related to the selling . |
| 14 | If you took the lowest number of booklets which is two and a half thousand which is probably may be a two sometimes three three doctor practice |
| 15 | The sarcasm seemed to relieve him a little and he took the black strop of leather from its nail and opened the razor . |
| 16 | Apart from that gesture of hastening away , neither man took the smallest notice of her . |
| 17 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 18 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 19 | Blending the bizarre with the familiar , Butlin took the established model of the British Holiday Camp by the scruff of the neck . |
| 20 | In 1980 the protesters even took the daring step of erecting a scaffolding tower across the path of the train carrying waste barrels on their way to the docks . |
| 21 | Bosnian Serbian forces on Oct. 7 unexpectedly took the strategic town of Bosanski Brod on the south bank of the Sava river separating Bosnia from Croatia . |
| 22 | As much as anything it represents the conviction which took the communist leadership of a proto-state into and through two cataclysmic conflicts with a tenacity and disregard of human life that has characterized religious , revolutionary and patriotic wars . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you sure she wo n't mind a total stranger calling on her ? ’ asked Melissa doubtfully as she took the proffered piece of paper . |
| 24 | ‘ I took the religious name of Agatha , really my own , but if you ask the Lady Prioress , she will tell you I entered these walls as Marie Savigny . ’ |
| 25 | Paul Nicholson and Enda Layng took the joint Captaincy of Sligo/Mullingar . |
| 26 | She developed an interest in Welsh literature , and took the bardic name of Merch Myrddin as a reminder of her birthplace . |
| 27 | After a heavy assault , he took the great city of Toledo which became his chief fortress on the eastern frontier , extending his kingdom still further into Moorish territory . |
| 28 | In 1612 the ambassador in Paris took the desperate step of writing directly to James I to ask for money and persuaded the duc de Bouillon , one of the greatest French nobles , to back his request . |
| 29 | He took the tiny piece of crumpled paper from his top pocket and unfolded it . |
| 30 | When intramuscular injections of penicillin failed to cure the patient , and after consulting Florey , Fleming took the heroic measure of injecting penicillin directly into the cerebrospinal fluid , where the streptococci still lurked . |