Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 2 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 3 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 4 | Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 5 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 6 | The final Russian snub , though it does not appear to have been taken as such by the Belorussians , came in January 1921 when the Belorussian SSR was constituted . |
| 7 | Most of the key decisions on military and political expenditure overseas in this period seem to have been taken in the Defence Committee , and simply endorsed by the Cabinet . |
| 8 | Rank , however , seems to have been taken unawares by a move that provided a disastrous demonstration of how ineffective he was in protecting the interests of the American companies . |
| 9 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 10 | The photograph is believed to have been taken just north of Grassmoor on the approach to Hasland . |
| 11 | His foresight in writing this was valuable , for the Golf Illustrated article was likely to have been taken at face value owing to the absence of any information to the contrary ! |
| 12 | It is doubtful whether in either of these situations the action taken is primarily concerned with punishment ; but the first example could fall within the definition of corporal punishment in the Act , which requires the action to have been taken wholly or partly for the purposes of punishment . |
| 13 | As Principal Buxton , Ernest Gray and others have noted , no account seems to have been taken in government circles in London of the plan for the Hanover school , although Vial , the College 's first professor , does mention it in his Preliminary Discourse . |
| 14 | The familiar doll-like figure in the engraving ( said to have been taken from a portrait in the possession of Mrs Vial ) is stated by Bracy Clark to bear little resemblance to Vial . |
| 15 | The strangely crouching posture , with the head down and the body hunched , seems to have been taken from the ‘ hiding-by-staying-put-on-the-nest ’ repertoire , while the running away and squealing has been taken from the escape repertoire . |
| 16 | Eamonn Dalton , Chief City Engineer , ‘ said it could be argued that the Ovens claim was not based on objective evidence in that the samples said to have been taken at the dump had been handled , transmitted and analysed in all cases presumably by people with a particular interest in one aspect of the case . |
| 17 | New Hampshire and Vermont — key Republican states , like Georgia — were also reported to have been taken by Clinton . |
| 18 | When , in the mid-Eighties , Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons stated that ‘ red is the new black ’ ( narrowly beating Diana Vreelands ' ‘ pink is the navy blue of India ’ observation in the Pretentious Fashion Statement stakes ) , it appeared to have been taken to heart by the designers of football kits . |
| 19 | But federal involvement in the case has been limited and little action appears to have been taken . |
| 20 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 21 | For a man who studied and coveted the presidency for years , he seems to have been taken aback by the discovery that his time is not his own . |
| 22 | Choice seemed to have been taken away from her , but some of her anxieties had also been allayed . |
| 23 | Given that so many swords and fittings were being offered in a session which might have stretched trade and private interest , a reasonable approach seems to have been taken towards the reserves . |
| 24 | They were restoring a measure of dignity , conceived to have been taken from them , by withdrawal into injured and strategic silence . |
| 25 | As for the dormeuse , it would seem to have been taken as far as Quatre Bras ; and there , according to his fellow officers von Oetlinger and von Humbracht , von Keller determined to open the necessaire that he had found in the carriage , believing it to be full of gold . |
| 26 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 27 | Although Read 's will was far more detailed than Sir Edmond 's , the circumstances surrounding its execution are rather more obscure ; certainly little notice appears to have been taken of the complicated procedure for appointment . |
| 28 | That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene . |
| 29 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 30 | At least some of these criticisms seem to have been taken on board in the recent proposals for reform of UK competition policy described in section II above . |