Example sentences of "[be] taken [adv] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Streatham Hill in June 1951 , to an estate owned by the same company , later to be taken over by Lambeth Council . |
| 2 | The charter that was drawn up represents , in fact , just such a claim : it was a political weapon in the battle for status and funding and is not to be taken simply at face value . |
| 3 | Although the depiction of an ancient building on a coin can not be taken entirely at face value , it would be equally wrong to conclude that the evidence of coins is worthless in reconstructing the architectural history of the ancient world . |
| 4 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 5 | Those who succeed are taken on as business management trainees . |
| 6 | EASTMAN Ross , the Aberdeen-based oil industry supplier , has been taken over by Kingswood Fluid Power Group . |
| 7 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
| 8 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 9 | Grey Crag Level had , Leathart found , been taken up along Paddy End Vein as far as the " Simon Nick cliff " . |
| 10 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 11 | The case has been taken up by Sligo TD Declan Bree , who said serious questions may have to be asked about how British intelligence knew about Mr Fox 's movements , since he travelled through Dublin on his way to Spain . |
| 12 | The children 's case has been taken up by Gloucester MP Douglas French , who wants the Secretary of State for Education to intervene : |
| 13 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 14 | This has yielded substantial modelling possibilities which is now approaching the stage where virtually all of the guesswork has been taken out of credit marketing . |
| 15 | All emergency cases needing surgery were taken instead to Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 16 | They were offered round the industry and there are considerably worse things which could have happened to them than being taken over by Greene King . |
| 17 | One possible future for biomedical engineering not essayed by Heinz ( but which is being taken seriously by electronics wizard Clive Sinclair ) is the sending of minuscule probes into the bloodstream to repair damage at distant sites . |
| 18 | Seems if they really want to study erosion then they should go watch all the bagfuls of ‘ pretty ’ rocks being taken out at Diamond Creek . |
| 19 | About half the tie the police spend investigating crime , is taken up with form filling and bureaucracy . |
| 20 | But , as a general principle , Northern Ireland 's social divisions ensure that police management prefer neighbourhood police to be on the street , as is their purpose , and in practice about three-quarters of the normal shift is taken up with beat duty , which is much higher than in Great Britain . |
| 21 | As Colin French was taken away by police animal rights supporters in the public gallery began to cheer and clap . |
| 22 | ( This bank was taken over by Barclays Bank before the First War . |
| 23 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 24 | ‘ A crew of three yacht owner John Graham , of Prenton and two friends were on board and the vessel was taken back into Douglas harbour . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The vessel was taken back into Douglas harbour . ’ |
| 26 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 27 | It was acute peritonitis , and he was taken back to Wrexham hospital — this time , obviously , as an in-patient . |
| 28 | He was taken back to Lindholme Prison , South Yorkshire . |
| 29 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 30 | Nathan was seventeen and seriously ill with tuberculosis when he was taken in to Highgate Hospital in January 1942 . |