Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 3 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 4 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 5 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 6 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 7 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 8 | Matthew A. has taken on the notion of drafting , of provisionality , better than the others . |
| 9 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 10 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 11 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 12 | It may be easier to make long-term decisions about the best size and type of steel mill if a simultaneous decision is taken on the level of car production to which steel output forms an important input . |
| 13 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 14 | Thus , over the years , many life assurance companies have taken on the management of pension funds on behalf of firms and other institutions . |
| 15 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 16 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 17 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 18 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 19 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
| 20 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 21 | Once past this hurdle , there came the committee stage taken on the floor of the House , when detailed amendments could be moved clause by clause , and again all amendments had to be taken and this stage went on until each had been dealt with . |
| 22 | The methods used for controlling debate are the power to apply the closure by a simple majority , though normally the majority must consist of a hundred members ; the power to send bills upstairs for their committee stage to a standing committee and the power , when bills are taken on the floor of the House or in committee , to impose a guillotine . |
| 23 | So the bill had to be taken on the floor of the House and all selected amendments had to be debated and voted on . |
| 24 | The second reading of the Finance Bill follows and from 1969 the bill has then been divided , clauses and schedules which involve issues of principle being taken on the floor of the House while the more detailed clauses are sent upstairs to a standing committee . |
| 25 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 26 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
| 27 | I think it 's important these matters are taken on the floor of the house because they are very , very serious . |
| 28 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 29 | The trees grew closely round it , and willow-like fronds drooped upon it ; it was made partly of bronze , and the bronze bad taken on the colour of green bark . |
| 30 | The action to be taken on the discovery of a fire or potential fire situation i.e. call for assistance , use of first aid , fire fighting extinguishers ( if reasonably safe to do so ) . |