Example sentences of "taken [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hints at races for priority and battles for funding , disappear politely into the background as the protagonist 's version , time and again , is taken as gospel . |
| 2 | This statement does not have to be taken as gospel to be of use . |
| 3 | Nobody will ever know exactly how many millions of young men and women were taken as slaves to the Americas during those terrible four hundred years . |
| 4 | Many educators and non-linguists , for instance , have criticised such spoken uses as ‘ you know ’ , which they have taken as signs of ‘ sloppy ’ speech or ‘ imprecise ’ thinking . |
| 5 | The honours scandals , the employment of the press lords , incessant changes of policy , and a profligate waste of money were all taken as signs of the degradation of office by Lloyd George . |
| 6 | The prohibition of usury in the Old Testament , therefore , should not be taken as criticism of a modern competitive capital market . |
| 7 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 8 | Their descriptions seem sufficiently close to one another to be taken as descriptions of the same divine being . |
| 9 | It feeds on a wide variety of fish — 43 different species are known to be taken as prey . |
| 10 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 11 | Ben was n't so sure of the wisdom of positive action ; it could be taken as interference . |
| 12 | Five IRCs will be taken as case studies , three from the UR and two from the US . |
| 13 | He glared as if an answer to the contrary would be taken as heresy . |
| 14 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 15 | Pearson 's enforced demotion within his own company , and the distaste shown by his partners for experiments that veered too sharply away from the comedies that had established Welsh-Pearson 's reputation , is generally taken as evidence of the conservatism inherent in the film industry . |
| 16 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 17 | But in any case , her prominence in the preparations for the 5 October march , and her leading part in it , did not mean that she intended that it should lead to a violent outcome , and the mere fact of her CPNI membership can not be taken as evidence for the existence of a violent conspiracy . |
| 18 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 19 | Financial dependence was taken as evidence for agency status . |
| 20 | Can the perplexing unreliability of animal behaviour be taken as evidence for something more ( or perhaps less ) than machinery making decisions ? |
| 21 | Opinion polls are taken as evidence of electoral viability ; and winning elections — not lesbian and gay rights , or even socialism — is Labour 's primary purpose . |
| 22 | Although computers and calculators have become an accepted part of mathematical teaching their presence in the classroom , should not be taken as evidence per se of ‘ up-to-dateness ’ . |
| 23 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 24 | Forms of speech which had been labelled ‘ ungrammatical ’ , and taken as evidence of cognitive deprivation , are shown by Labov to be simply forms of dialect with no fundamental consequences for cognitive performance . |
| 25 | As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 27 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 28 | In the absence of any reliable direct measure variations were taken as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 29 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 30 | Conversely , when they discovered diachronism , all similarities in lithology tended to be taken as evidence of different ages . |