Example sentences of "be take to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The shop stewards also decided that all accident and emergency cases would be taken to the nearest accident and emergency department .
2 When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed .
3 He was guilty of blasphemy and could now be taken to the Roman Governor with the recommendation that he suffer the death penalty .
4 An RUC spokesman explained that now , following an arrest , a man can be taken to the criminal court , and unless there are further offences of which the police are aware , the women need not attend the court .
5 ( Civil cases in Singapore could only be taken to the Privy Council in London if both parties agreed in advance of hearings at the Court of Appeals . )
6 We shall do our best , of course , to hold the Residency against them , but the chances are that we are now too few to be able to do so For this reason all the wounded , the ladies , and the children must be taken to the banqueting hall tonight , together with water , powder , cloth , and indeed every single object that might come to our assistance .
7 George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up .
8 My orders are for this skeleton to be taken to the Natural History Museum in London , where scientific tests will reveal more about its true nature .
9 A couple of the members had to miss this on Sunday as Phil ( Sir Courtney ) had to be taken to the local hospital for stitches in his fingers .
10 Two toddler-type swings are requested as it is felt that more often than not two small children are taken to the playing field accompanied either by one or two adults and the provision of two swings would prevent disputes .
11 The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes .
12 The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall .
13 So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours .
14 Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City .
15 The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke .
16 He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment .
17 The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . )
18 In the 1930s the royal mummies were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .
19 A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow .
20 Surprisingly , the other avenue available — use of the County Topic Loan Service — does not seem to have been explored in any systematic way , even though parties of children were taken to the divisional library on at least one occasion .
21 But the girls were taken to the same nursery while their mothers rested .
22 After lunch , where both of us drank too much red wine , we were taken to the wild boar pens and told to clean them out .
23 We were taken to the main hall , a long lofty chamber dominated by a hammer-beamed roof with an oriel window at one end depicting the Lamb of God carrying a standard .
24 With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London .
25 The Bosnians were taken to the old terminal , on a little used part of the airport , and then transferred by coach to centres in Surrey , West London and a new centre in Dewsbury , Yorkshire , which took 60 from the latest flight .
26 Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 .
27 THE NATIONAL Trust is being taken to the High Court in a test case that could halt all Sunday trading at its souvenir and garden centres .
28 I think she 's taken to the open road like a Romany . ’
29 In golf 's World Matchplay Championship quarter-finals at Wentworth , Seve Ballesteros beats the American , Chip Beck , 9 and 8 , but Nick Faldo is taken to the 38th hole by South Africa 's David Frost before winning a sudden-death play-off .
30 On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed .
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