Example sentences of "taken [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when meaningful financial rates of return were calculated , and proved to be low , but just in excess of the cost of borrowing , decisions were taken to implement projects as a result of pressure for action . |
| 2 | Third process teaching and learning styles should vary as widely as possible in order to provide maximum stimulation for both teachers and pupils and care should be taken to plan programmes with a long term rhythm of change or variety the element of chance and serendipity |
| 3 | Preliminary steps taken to conduct studies on trade , technology and investment flows in the region may seem insignificant . |
| 4 | The opportunity will be taken to conduct investigations into the recent boiler tube leak in C Quadrant of Reactor 4 . |
| 5 | For example the moves in the EC towards competence-based systems of qualifications where ‘ time-serving ’ is not an element means that the time taken to acquire qualifications becomes irrelevant . |
| 6 | " While unprecedented measures are being taken to curb CFCs , scientists studying the effects of stratospheric flights and their increasing frequency are still starved of research funds . |
| 7 | When a subsequent judgment study ( Groeger & Chapman , in preparation b ) was designed which used the same films as Study 4 , the opportunity was taken to include questions about the amount of fixed and variable information in the stimuli . |
| 8 | It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | However , the value must be taken to include sums relating to state benefits which by virtue of s22 of the Social Security Act 1989 have to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | The time taken to process claims has been reduced ; the error rate is down ; and claimants are spending less time waiting . |
| 12 | A KWVR member and computer programmer has designed a sophisticated program that is cutting significantly the time taken to process bookings . |
| 13 | A 20 per cent reduction in the time taken to process documents so that by April 1991 documents are on average available to the public within 18 working days of being delivered to Companies House . |
| 14 | In practice every opportunity should be taken to encourage students to formulate ideas for themselves . |
| 15 | What steps has the Ministry taken to encourage farmers in those areas to consider alternative land use and to recognise that agriculture policy is no longer about prices only but embraces rural development , rural housing and rural agriculture that is based on their products ? |
| 16 | NOTE : When planning a garden , care must be taken to exclude plants which have poisonous leaves or berries . |
| 17 | Every opportunity was taken to inform Ministers of the grave economic state of the profession . |
| 18 | Have specific steps been taken to attract men and " mature " women to nurse training ? |
| 19 | Special precautions were also taken to guard stations , bridges , and level crossings , and all facing points over which the train had to pass were securely bolted . |
| 20 | Steps should be taken to eliminate conflicts of interest as soon as they arise and fee-sharing with non-lawyers should not be allowedamendment being required here to permit MDPs . |
| 21 | The records of these boards show great variety in the length of time taken to reach agreements , the disparity in offers and counteroffers and the flow of information to be traced in detail . |
| 22 | She uses photographs that she has taken to create collages . |
| 23 | Thus it was in this context , with Soviet leaders feeling that although they possessed an adequate deterrence , it was only minimally adequate , that the decision was taken to install missiles in Cuba ( see Horelick : 1964 ) . |
| 24 | They would suggest that , when new technologies are being introduced , care should be taken to design jobs associated with those technologies which have the core job characteristics they specify . |
| 25 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 26 | I am convinced that any steps that can be taken to explore methods of production which make better and more effective use of renewable resources are extremely important . |
| 27 | Watching at the scene was one of the unfortunate residents , Mr. Worby , manager of the Co-operative Society 's Outfitting Department where I was often taken to buy clothes . |
| 28 | Elaborate steps had been taken to conceal plans for the wedding . |
| 29 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 30 | The time taken to identify words is a measure of how well that particular word has been understood . |