Example sentences of "have [adv] taken [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 2 | A Japanese company has since taken out a 17-year patent on the chemical . |
| 3 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 4 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 7 | Eight years ago , the council gave Burton Property Trust permission to build a multi-storey car park as part of the Cornmill but it has not taken up the option . |
| 8 | He will use the platform provided by the Tory Women 's Conference to try to reassure the Tory Right that the Left has not taken over the Government . |
| 9 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 10 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 11 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 13 | The board encompasses the entire Earth : the only game ever attempted has already taken almost a billion years and shows no signs of a conclusion . |
| 14 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 15 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 16 | The EC has also taken on the role of policing the exercise of these rights through the Commission and the European Court of Justice , taking its brief from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome 1957 concerning free movement of goods and services , restrictive trade agreements and abuses of dominant trading positions . |
| 17 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 18 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 19 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 20 | The affair , he believes , is evidence of a deep-seated political campaign against the police , of which the most recent evidence is the fact that Balwinder Gill , late of the SMG , has now taken up an appointment as a race officer with Hounslow council . |
| 21 | The client has now taken up an appointment in computing . |
| 22 | ‘ The YMCA has now taken on a much more important role , ’ says the genial Mr Hewitt , who is very concerned about the homeless . |
| 23 | ‘ In a society where the image has virtually taken over every aspect of life , people are tired of having someone else decide what it is they will see . |
| 24 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 25 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 26 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 27 | Headline has recently taken on the challenge of some of the Queen Anne Press list — the Rothmans and Playfair sports books . |
| 28 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 29 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 30 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |