Example sentences of "to task [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 2 | Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors . |
| 3 | Another reader takes Christine Sutton to task on a semantic point . |
| 4 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
| 5 | Irwin Gabathuler of the University of Liverpool took theorists to task at a meeting at the Royal Society in London last month . |
| 6 | Branches of Dillons , Books Etc and Bookland have been taken to task over the wording on their sale signposting and promotional material , including material provided by the National Book Sale . |
| 7 | Having taken Sir Lewis to task over the delay in holding the agm and Mr Michel 's joining fee , Mr Middlemass was applauded when he took issue with the extraordinary motion to increase the employees ' discount on share options to 20 per cent . |
| 8 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 9 | Anyone who tried this line of argument would be taken to task by the pollsters , who have a commercial interest in resisting such reasoning . |
| 10 | Professor Ronald H Girdwood , the chairman of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Association , took me to task in a letter at the end of last month . |
| 11 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |