Example sentences of "have take [art] form of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | The police response to these complaints has taken the form of a much publicised propaganda exercise the launch of the Metropolitan Police guidelines on racial harassment . |
| 10 | This has taken the form of the encouragement of ‘ commercialism ’ , that is a rationality akin to that of the private corporation . |
| 11 | The intervention has taken the form of more or less open ministerial arm-twisting rather than the invoking of statutory powers . |
| 12 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 13 | It seems curious that for all those hard-riding , hard-drinking squires , the eternal search for a status symbol should have taken the form of building temples to nymphs and dryads . |
| 14 | Some of these offerings could have taken the form of wooden effigies , an idea supported by the discovery of many such figures in sacred pools in Germany and France . |
| 15 | She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ? |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Whilst we agree that demand for boat moorings is likely to grow , we believe the solution does not have to take the form of the ‘ designer ’ marinas of the 1980s , where extensive residential and leisure development were required to finance the capital investment in pontoons and related marina works . |
| 18 | In order to be ‘ Court of Justice proof ’ , this amendment will have to take the form of a change in the primary text of the Treaty or of the inclusion of an additional protocol . |
| 19 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 20 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 21 | In France it seems mainly to have taken the form of rationalization during a major merger boom . |
| 22 | He was a man whose sexual energies had been forced inwards through his crippling disease , and had taken the form of mental passion which found relief in meticulous scholarship and mild prurience . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 25 | We have already illustrated ways in which the research on the effects of brain damage on mental processes had taken the form of defining increasingly more specific patterns of disorder . |
| 26 | At school his feuds had taken the form of punch-ups and verbal abuse , but this time — well , if he 'd tried to punch you — ’ |
| 27 | Others have taken the form of warriors , children , headless women , PHANTOM coaches , monks and many more . |
| 28 | These larger units have taken the form of ‘ cooperative combines ’ run by nominees from the control committees of member cooperatives . |
| 29 | It will have been observed that nearly all the cases in this chapter arising from industrial disputes have taken the form of actions against individual workers or trade union officials . |
| 30 | These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues . |