Example sentences of "take exception to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1984 : Shock horror as authority takes exception to the amount of obscenity on record . |
| 2 | Obin takes exception to the assertion that Cobol is strongly typed , arguing that you can , for example , add ASCII format to a more optimised format . |
| 3 | Merchants were not famous for taking exception to the behaviour of government appointees , but one of them likened the new Moscow Governor , A. A. Zakrevskii , to an Asiatic khan or Chinese viceroy . |
| 4 | Many were overawed by the occasion though , with one of the Highland entrants taking exception to the crowd 's enthusiastic applause . |
| 5 | The Senate then took exception to the legend on the stamps : ‘ Polish Post Office : Port of Gdansk ’ . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 7 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 8 | He even took exception to the introduction I gave him and when it came to the commercial break , he wagged his finger at me . |
| 9 | The woodsmen took exception to the phrase about ‘ the greed of commercial interests ’ . |
| 10 | At Southwark in 1705 , the women took exception to the candidacy of a local Tory JP , a bachelor and renowned misogynist , who had once said " that he had rather see a Sow and Pigs , than a Woman and her Children " . |
| 11 | Mr Jones , 43 , who runs the cafe in Ross-on-Wye , said : ‘ I took exception to the fact that she was selling teas outside our door without informing me first . ’ |
| 12 | Bell also took exception to the briefing provided by the task force assigned to his department . |
| 13 | There had been an almighty family row a fortnight before : Tristram had remarked that she was overworked and that they could easily afford a servant , and Harry had taken exception to the suggestion . |
| 14 | All neurotics , and many others besides , take exception to the fact that ‘ inter urinas et faeces nascimur [ we are born between urine and faeces ] ’ . |
| 15 | I take exception to the fact that the people who are deciding matters at intergovernmental conferences want to force the issue of unification far faster than I would wish . |