Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 2 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 3 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 4 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 5 | A MORE direct and purposeful Erith and Belvedere side deservedly took the Beazer Homes Southern Division points at Cressing Road as Braintree failed once again with another disappointing display . |
| 6 | As far as Wales was concerned , Warwick also took the opportunity offered by his control of Edward IV to help himself to some of Pembroke 's key offices : justiciar of south Wales , constable of Carmarthen and Cardigan and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire . |
| 7 | As far as Wales was concerned , Warwick also took the opportunity offered by his control of Edward IV to help himself to some of Pembroke 's key offices : justiciar of south Wales , constable of Carmarthen and Cardigan and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire . |
| 8 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 9 | The manufacturers also took the opportunity to review their quality control procedures . |
| 10 | Yoshida also took the opportunity to say that while , of course , the decision must rest with the Allies , the Japanese felt that an early Peace Treaty was most desirable . |
| 11 | A major development in rural industry often took the form of town based capitalists organising the labours of village artificers . |
| 12 | When David proudly took the letter to him , he scanned it and threw it aside . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , Bauer and Renner initially took an optimistic view of the outcome of the rivalry between the two movements ; the multinational Habsburg Empire , they thought , might be transformed into a socialist federation of nations , in which the concept of a ‘ nation ’ would itself change and the principle of nationality would begin to lose some of its importance as a basis for the formation of states . |
| 14 | Political conflicts normally took the form of struggles between parties or individuals for influence over the ruler , struggles in which the victor secured the all-important privilege of easy access to him and in which the vanquished were dismissed , disgraced or exiled . |
| 15 | And Rovers duly took the lead after eight minutes . |
| 16 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 17 | With the news that NCR Corp has joined the ranks of those opting for its Unix implementation for the iAPX-86 processor family , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft subsidiary finally took the wrapping off its long-awaited Unix SVR4-based operating system environment last week . |
| 18 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 19 | The reality was that provincial reformers generally took the ideological initiative away from London on this important point . |
| 20 | But the visitors deservedly took the points with Daryl Sutch 's 49th-minute winner . |
| 21 | The visitors deservedly took the lead on 16 minutes when a fine move involving Gary McCartney and Mark Glendinning on the left ended with Jonathan Magee crashing the ball into the net . |
| 22 | The collection initially created interest amongst members of knitting clubs — Roz always took the garments to illustrate her knitwear ‘ talks ’ and was encouraged to publish the patterns . |
| 23 | Yet his charm always took the curse off it . |
| 24 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 25 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 26 | The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations . |
| 27 | But the Sandinista also took the initiative by training brigadistas up and down the country in preventive techniques like simple listening skills , bereavement counselling , relaxation methods , even family and group therapy . |
| 28 | Manuel also took the free kick that led to Gayle 's goal , while Blissett 's 15th goal of the season was a 67th-minute header . |
| 29 | Manuel also took the free kick which led to Brentford 's second in the 18th minute , Gayle sending in a cracker from 18 yards . |
| 30 | Advent originally took a 30% equity holding in 1985 to finance the company 's need to buy an IBM mainframe , essential as , until the advent of Universal OLAS , Quality 's offerings ran only on IBM mainframes . |