Example sentences of "took to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lodged what he took to be a legal objection against Ramsey being admitted to be Archbishop of York . |
| 2 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 4 | As she knocked twice and opened the door of the shed , Mungo could see what he took to be a workshop . |
| 5 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 6 | ‘ Detailed ’ Karelius took to be a euphemism for brutal . |
| 7 | Stephen was disappointed at what he took to be a refusal . |
| 8 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 9 | In particular , whereas I had fairly strong evidence that one particular set of rules , the bureaucratic format as I called it , was standard in NHS consultations and common in the American consultations on which I had data , what I took to be a further distinct mode , the ‘ charity ’ format , was used by only one of the American doctors in the study . |
| 10 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 11 | The decisive decade for exploration had been the 1490s : Columbus reached the West Indies ( which at first he took to be a part of Japan ) , Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean , and Pope Alexander VI recognized that Spain 's new interest in expansion would clash with Portugal 's existing claims unless they were defined quickly . |
| 12 | Yet we consoled ourselves with what we took to be a furtive glint of triumph in Ranteallo 's eyes as he accepted our pig money , and swore to us that he would not burn the house down before we could make it back from filming the king 's burial in the death-cliffs . |
| 13 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 14 | ‘ You can cut it for me after the party , ’ he told her , which everybody took to be a big joke . |
| 15 | When Gebrec approached , he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof . |
| 16 | The nervous neighbour peeped around her door to ask if everything was all right , which Rain took to be a reprimand about the noise . |
| 17 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 18 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 19 | They saw what they took to be a wild-eyed drunk , well dressed and bleeding from a blow on the mouth . |
| 20 | And , turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour , caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession . |
| 21 | Between the ideologues and monetarists of the New Right , and the revisionist Marxists of the New Left , defenders of what they took to be the post-1945 social order floundered unhappily . |
| 22 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 23 | On entering the tavern , the Wokingham men saw Chalk and Fowler accompanied by an elderly man whom they took to be the lawyer . |
| 24 | Their administrators then proceeded to act in accordance with what they took to be the finest traditions of their service and stood up for them . |
| 25 | The ILP did so only at the price of appearing to abstain altogether from the politics of what almost everyone else took to be the real world . |
| 26 | He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect . |
| 27 | As you may know , FAMILY GO TOWN have the unenviable task of warming up for the Inspirals on the current tour and in an effort to be matey , after the Nottingham gig , Graham started chatting away to a bunch of people he took to be the support group . |
| 28 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |
| 29 | He was still trying to govern the Church from what he took to be the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 30 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |