Example sentences of "[be] taken [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It should be taken first thing in the morning , before it has had time to be increased by exertion , mental excitement , eating , or stimulants like tea , coffee or nicotine .
2 But other measures need to be taken first .
3 Paskevich wanted to cross the Araxes without further ado and move on Tabriz and Tehran , whereas Ermolov believed that the fortress of Erevan had to be taken first .
4 It is now being assessed in detail , the decision on its funding will be taken next year .
5 Pulling the bonus that would normally be taken next year into this year 's earnings leaves 1993 looking a little thin .
6 A decision on that will be taken next month .
7 The volost' party cell and its activities are taken first , before moving to less politically secure organs like the local village Soviets and the Komsomol ( Young Communist League ) .
8 They were taken first to the Royal East Sussex Hospital and then further a field .
9 The first steps were taken last week when an experiment to monitor ‘ machine-readable passports ’ ( MRPs ) was launched at Heathrow airport .
10 Two rainbows of over 3lb were taken last Saturday ; one of 3lb 12oz falling to a 13-year-old boy .
11 Fearing that he might end up excluded , whatever steps were taken next , Edward managed next morning to get a memo through to ‘ C' 's personal assistant , with a promise that it would end up on his desk .
12 The initiative was taken first in relation to young children , and an almost universal policy was adopted to prevent the reception into residential care of young children under five .
13 The decision was taken to try these two matters separately , and the trial of the charges relating to an alleged conspiracy as to the accounts was taken first .
14 The decision to show the car was taken last November , not long after Rolls-Royce insisted that an introduction was still several years away .
15 Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister , said yesterday that swift action was taken last weekend after the Dutch authorities informed him that tonnes of cattle feed contaminated with lead had been shipped to Britain .
16 Secondly , the decision to screen 16 Hong Kong meetings between now and the end of March was taken last year before firm plans about all-weather racing had been drawn up .
17 But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman 's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained .
18 The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate .
19 it was taken last July fortnight because Jackie and Tom were away and that
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