Example sentences of "be taken a " in BNC.

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1 They can be taken a few hours before sleep is required in the new time zone .
2 The argument might be taken a step further .
3 Cooperative acquisition may be taken a stage further if a system of centralized acquisition is introduced .
4 This affinity of a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers can be taken a stage further .
5 The plate can then be reworked in these areas or in fact the whole can be taken a stage further by laying another ground of resin and immersing in the acid again .
6 Perhaps they were disturbed by alarming reports from France , where the noble philosophical aims of Liberty , Equality and Fraternity were beginning to be taken a little too far .
7 The argument supporting mode e can be taken a stage further .
8 Discussion will be comparatively abstract and detailed elaboration will be left to Chapter 7 , but the themes will be taken a little further forward in relation to a discussion of the transition of state engagement with society from modernism/modernization to post-modernism/post-modernization .
9 This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers .
10 The positive analysis of vertical restraints within this framework can be taken a little further , with implications for normative issues .
11 This approach can be taken a stage further by introducing the marginal efficiency of investment ( MEI ) .
12 Mr Martin Holgate , formerly chief scientist at the environment department and now director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources based in Geneva , will summarise the possible action to be taken a role which he performed brilliantly at the recent London ozone conference .
13 The teachers felt that they 'd put so much effort into it , that it er , should be taken a stage further ,
14 This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) .
15 One wartime May queen had just heard that her brother had been taken a prisoner-of-war , but insisted on going ahead with her duties .
16 In Ulster the application of the theory has been taken a stage further and much effort has been spent , in addition , on ways to discredit and alienate non-terrorist opponents of the government from their host populations .
17 A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) :
18 And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think .
19 It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs .
20 Richard Chauncy 's improvements were taken a step further by William Henry Chauncy , who caused the village of Edgcote with its eighteen families to be removed from his prospect sometime before 1788 .
21 The commentators , who seemed to be pro United , were taken a little aback that at least three scum players were n't booked ( at minimum ) for bodychecking and other misc. fouls .
22 Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure .
23 Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure .
24 Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony .
25 ‘ 'E 's taken a fancy to you , John mate .
26 You see , he 's taken a fancy to you , and it would be awful if he thought … ’
27 ‘ Doyle 's taken a downward turn .
28 Taylor yesterday underlined the lighter mood in the England camp when he kidded journalists : ‘ I am afraid Gazza 's taken a bad knock and I 've drafted in Vinnie Jones … ’
29 ‘ She 's taken a little .
30 I can not possibly reveal the name of the alleged culprit , because at the time of going to press he 's taken a well-deserved holiday in the ardeche from his climbing wall company
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