Example sentences of "[noun sg] have take [art] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
| 2 | The intervention has taken the form of more or less open ministerial arm-twisting rather than the invoking of statutory powers . |
| 3 | As the general secretary of the CISL put it , ‘ In the years 1965–66 , especially , a process of rationalization in the industries caused serious tensions to arise and was the cause of a new awareness of the problems of working life , this process having taken the form of a balance of forces highly unfavourable to the worker ’ ( Reggio , quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 520 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the Italian cities the rationalization of legal chaos had taken the form from the late eleventh century onwards of the revival of Roman Law . |
| 8 | For now what seem rather obscure reasons , much of ‘ urban ’ sociology has taken the form of the sociology of civil society or of consumption . |
| 9 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |