Example sentences of "be taken [prep] the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 2 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 3 | Reasonable care must be taken for the employee 's safety ( Latimer v AEC [ 1953 ] AC 643 . |
| 4 | Teaching children should always be taken at the child 's pace , answering questions as truthfully and accurately as possible , rather than trying to tell the whole story . |
| 5 | Under the new contracts staff would work a 37-hour week and have 35 days holiday to be taken at the management 's discretion . |
| 6 | A corporate view , instead , has to be taken of the school 's comparison with others — and expressed in terms of measured attainment . |
| 7 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 8 | This will usually show the sum to be deducted from the invoice for the goods in question ( ie how much will be taken off the retailer 's bill ) . |
| 9 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 10 | In that case , the grievance would be taken under the LEA 's own procedure . |
| 11 | The proposal calls for the four leading Welsh teams to be taken into the West 's Premier Division , with four more going into North Division One . |
| 12 | Care must be taken with the passenger 's replies as they will be hearsay unless in the driver 's presence . |
| 13 | On the following day the appellant would have to be taken before the magistrates ' court : section 46 . |
| 14 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
| 15 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 16 | The following pieces of information are taken from the student 's notes on the Spanish Civil War and are in no particular order . |
| 17 | The graphs on this page illustrate the trends and the type of casualty and are taken from the Institution 's 1990 Annual Report which was issued at the Meetings . |
| 18 | He had been taken to the Colonel 's bungalow . |
| 19 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 20 | At one time it was thought that not many photographs were taken of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , especially of No 1 , the ex GWR Tank Locomotive , which shares the honours with ‘ Carlisle ’ as being the last two engines to work the line . |
| 21 | Mortimer 's estates were taken into the king 's hands , but , in contrast to his father in 1322 and Mortimer himself in 1327 , Edward did not immediately use the confiscated lands to underpin the power of another group of favourites . |
| 22 | Visitors were taken round the headquarters ' accommodation , including the editorial offices of the Society 's journal , Radio Communication , which nowadays is produced by the latest ‘ new technology ’ processes . |
| 23 | You say I ca n't go , and Father — well , look at him ; can you see him being taken to the Queen 's presence ? ’ |
| 24 | Today she 's been looking to see what steps are being taken in the nation 's capital , to try and make life easier . |
| 25 | Sarah is taken into the Pharaoh 's harem . |
| 26 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 27 | It is arguable that this would be right ; but on the whole it seems to us that , whatever view is taken of the buyer 's moral duty , the law would be too strict if it made him guilty of theft . |
| 28 | In this project advantage is taken of the researcher 's proximity to Northern France and the opportunities this offers to use ethnographic methods in an in-depth study of two Calais primary schools , one in the affluent northern quarter of the town and the other in its educational priority zone . |
| 29 | In a no account is taken of the animals ' life styles . |
| 30 | Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that |