Example sentences of "be taken [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stranger asking for employment at the mine would not , unless he was skilled in the mining trade , expect to be taken on in a partnership so readily , though a labour shortage might improve his chances . |
| 2 | The group was set to be taken over by a company owned by Pat Robertson , an American televangelist and former right-wing presidential hopeful . |
| 3 | The Benson and Hedges cricket competition will then be no more ; the increasingly national rugby league competition will probably be taken over by a beer , cola , telecommunications , or insurance sponsor . |
| 4 | There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket . |
| 5 | They also stressed that prosecutions should be taken up by a state prosecutor , rather than left to the ineffective parish vestry committees |
| 6 | His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there . |
| 7 | In such a case at least one share would have to be taken up by a solicitor or a recognised body to avoid expiry of the recognition . |
| 8 | In such a case at least one share would have to be taken up by a solicitor or a recognised body to avoid expiry of the recognition . |
| 9 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |
| 10 | They 'd be taken up in a trainer plane by a pilot who had survived the Battle of Britain and , as Len put it , was zonked out with combat . |
| 11 | Before they were out of the English channel a severe storm washed a man overboard and left Mrs Dutton so ill she had to be taken ashore in a pilot boat when the storm dropped . |
| 12 | Determined not to be taken unawares by an attack under cover of darkness , Cope 's men , on his orders , ‘ stood all night under arms ’ only to find , as dawn broke through the morning mist , that the Jacobites were attacking from a totally unexpected direction , the east , to his rear , instead of the west , to his front . |
| 13 | This can be taken either as a criticism of the actual teaching of the subject or as a remark on the ineffectiveness of schooling on such attitudes in the Northern Ireland context . |
| 14 | In the light of this , A's utterance might be taken simply as a request for confirmation that the assumption in [ 15c ] is indeed the one B intended to convey , or , in other words , that the utterance in [ 15c ] is indeed an adequate representation of the one in [ 15b ] . |
| 15 | Dying Colinetta 's defence of her reputation can be taken simply as an attempt to obscure conflicts relating to common pasture land . |
| 16 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | If Auburn is a dream of an ideal countryside , that dream need not be taken solely as a retreat from history but as an image of social possibility . |
| 18 | Insurance cover must be taken out with an insurance company which is a member of the Motor Insurers ' Bureau ( MIB ) . |
| 19 | No Rottweiler , no matter how good or bad , should be taken out without a lead on . |
| 20 | You must tell them that the balance of the first year 's payment will be taken out through a banker 's order . |
| 21 | Failing that they can be taken out into a yard sprayed with solvent degreaser and pressure jetted , otherwise it is a matter of brushing with a churn or utility brush and using a toothbrush in the crevices . |
| 22 | Downstairs wastes ( from the kitchen sink , for example ) can be taken out to a gully as in the older system , except that they must discharge below the level of the grid on the top of the gully , which means using a back-inlet gully or one with a hole cut in the grid . |
| 23 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 24 | And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’ |
| 25 | She was obviously impatient to be taken out for a spin even though there was hardly puff enough to stir her anemometer . |
| 26 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 27 | She was such a level-headed , dynamic person ; and to be taken in by a scut like him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |
| 29 | I believe that this Cuban fear of US military action must be taken seriously as a component of Castro 's decision-making . |
| 30 | It suits the purpose of , for example , R. F. Dearden ( 1976 ) , Professor of Education at Birmingham University , to assume the naive view of non-seriousness and therefore to argue that for this reason even Wendy House play in the Infant School could not possibly be taken seriously as a medium for learning . |