Example sentences of "taken [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their descriptions seem sufficiently close to one another to be taken as descriptions of the same divine being . |
| 5 | These limitations of traditional lists of subject headings should not necessarily be taken as faults in their construction . |
| 6 | For those not wishing to specialise in statistics , some courses may be taken as options with Mathematics honours or in an ordinary degree ; such possibilities are valuable to those who intend to teach in schools or to take other employment in which they will apply mathematics . |
| 7 | However a great deal of casual conversation contains phrases and echoes of phrases which appear more to be intended as contributions to a conversation than to be taken as instances of information-giving . |
| 8 | And with your names leading the Party , how can we be taken as warmongers and murderers ? ’ |
| 9 | They are more plausible when taken as responses to a question about dependent conditionals which in fact has more claim to be regarded as the principal one . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1372 an English fleet was defeated by Castilian galleys off the port of La Rochelle , and many Englishmen were taken as prisoners to Spain . |
| 11 | On June 25 Iran , reportedly at the request of the leadership council of Lebanese Hezbollahreleased 40 Lebanese taken as prisoners of war during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 12 | The pressure at 100 ml ( corrected by subtracting the pressure within the balloon inflated in ambient air ) and the maximum tolerable volume ( the balloon volume causing abdominal discomfort or spontaneous expulsion ) were taken as indices of rectal compliance . |
| 13 | The rigidity of American standards is closely related to the seriousness with which meritocracy and classlessness are taken as ideals . |
| 14 | These turned out to be prints of William Green 's soft-ground etchings taken as proofs from the plates in the early 1800's . |
| 15 | Although attempts are being made to remedy this lack of knowledge , there are still many assumptions about recreation and the countryside which are taken as facts . |
| 16 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 17 | Three subjects were taken at A level and they were usually taken as packages of closely related studies : physics , chemistry , and mathematics ; French , German , and English ; history , geography , and economics . |
| 18 | Mentions should not be taken as recommendations . |
| 19 | Mentions should not be taken as recommendations . |
| 20 | The inner cabinet was split along party lines six to six , but tied votes are taken as votes against , writes Charles Richards . |
| 21 | Photographs taken during rehearsals ( photographers are not allowed to take shots during live takes ) showed up these sellotape reels clearly . |
| 22 | Perhaps , with this sense of purpose still fresh upon you , you decide that the notes taken during lectures will be " written up " in your room — when ? |
| 23 | Care must be taken during negotiations with or on behalf of a target that any group relief claims are not jeopardised by the existence of an ‘ arrangement ’ to sell . |
| 24 | A CRITICAL EDITION has a named editor , who tries to make the text the best possible version , and will usually include footnotes or appendices explaining decisions taken about words in the text . |
| 25 | The process demonstrates both response to external pressure and the action that can be taken between companies which are both based in industrialised ( and therefore interdependent ) countries . |
| 26 | Focussing attention on food is mistaken except in the requirement of the basic physical abstinence from sugar and white flour and specific binge foods and in acquiring the basic physical discipline of having three regular meals daily with nothing taken between meals . |
| 27 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 28 | But OP in the diagram represents the phasor output potential difference taken between terminals P and O. Consequently , through altering the resistance R , the output may be varied in phase by π radians with respect to the input while maintaining its amplitude constant . |
| 29 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 30 | Jo Durie , Britain 's No. 1 ranked player , delivered an honest assessment of the needs of aspiring young tennis champions when she called for the pressure to be taken off youngsters , particularly those between the crucial ages of 10–14 . |