Example sentences of "taken for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was taken for the army , the light in their house would be damped out forever . |
| 2 | He had already accepted the need for reunion of churches in South India and agreed with Archbishop Michael Ramsey 's view that risks should be taken for the sake of Gospel . |
| 3 | ‘ The decision has been taken for the good of Turkish football and its players , ’ a federation spokesman said . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 5 | The winners and their parents were going to have their pictures taken for the newspaper . |
| 6 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 7 | After Drew answered questions concisely on the time taken for the application and removal of make-up , a rather over-zealous coroner once more closed the proceedings . |
| 8 | As to the possibility of the crew shooting some extra footage whilst at the museum , I am afraid this would have to be dependent on the time taken for the shots we plan for use in our Project Video . |
| 9 | Even the uncompleted temple of Olympian Zeus was robbed of some columns , taken for the temple of Capitoline Jupiter at Rome . |
| 10 | When parties went out grouse shooting , whisky was always taken for the beaters , keepers and loaders . |
| 11 | It is now generally realised that unless something is done to reduce accidents , other measures taken for the good of a nation 's health are being undermined . |
| 12 | On 13 September , at a house taken for the College near the Elephant & Castle tavern , close to St Pancras Church ( which became Old St Pancras Church when St Pancras New Church was built by the Inwood brothers in 1819–1822 ) the proposal from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy was approved . |
| 13 | B the mean peeking rate and T the time taken for the cat to complete its final dash . |
| 14 | Interestingly , the larger the set of photos , then the longer the ‘ thinking ’ time taken for the animal 's response . |
| 15 | The passage of time taken for the paint to thicken might also be discussed . |
| 16 | copies of reports prepared for the purposes of the concentration and from which information has been taken for the purposes of the Form CO ; |
| 17 | The time ( nominally 21 seconds ) taken for the voltage to reach a predetermined level is recorded by an on-chip 12-stage binary counter . |
| 18 | A better method is to measure the time taken for the full code to be read in . |
| 19 | The transit time — the time taken for the food we put into our mouths to pass along the whole of the intestinal tract until the residue is excreted as stools — has also been found to differ enormously between us and them . |
| 20 | Sometimes , the doppelganger appears to friends or relatives of the dying , and their mimicry is so convincing that they are usually taken for the person involved . |
| 21 | What neither the historian nor archaeologist can reconstruct is the time taken for the two cultures to mingle , with intermarriage and innovations in the languages . |
| 22 | More than £250,000 gate money was taken for the second day of the June test against Pakistan , and the decision could open the floodgates for other claims . |
| 23 | The alternative infra-red system uses a beam which is emitted from the camcorder and reflected back off the subject , the time taken for the reflection to return being measured and converted to a distance setting . |
| 24 | Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds . |
| 25 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Bookings are now being taken for the 1992 intensive operations . |
| 27 | A collection totalling £375 was taken for the work of Christian Aid and CAFOD , and refreshments were served afterwards in the new parish hall . |
| 28 | However , the problem is not so much the balance , but the varying times taken for the raw materials to complete their respective breakdowns and become available to the plants . |
| 29 | Orders will be taken for the new series of chips from June this year . |
| 30 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |