Example sentences of "[was/were] taken [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 2 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 3 | The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war . |
| 4 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 5 | It was pleasing to note that many recommendations made by our Agriculture Working Party were taken up in the scheme . |
| 6 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 7 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 8 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 9 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |
| 10 | In 1849–51 an annual average of 191 agriculture patents were taken out in the United States ; in 1859–61 , 1,282 ; in 1869–71 , no less than 3,217 . |
| 11 | And when the other cows were taken out in the morning and brought home in the evening , it stood there without even turning its head . |
| 12 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 13 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 14 | This notion was taken up in the model proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ( and developed by Hall and Pearce ( 1982 ) , and by Pearce , Kaye , and Hall ( 1982 ) ) , which was presented originally as an account of classical conditioning . |
| 15 | This coupling of social insurance with a safety net of means-tested benefits was taken up in the Beveridge Plan which settled the framework of the welfare state after the Second World War ( Beveridge , 1942 ) . |
| 16 | The decision was taken earlier in the year and the employees were identified and told about the decision before the year end . |