Example sentences of "had been taken [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Both Norman Tebbit and John Wakeham were now back after the Grand Hotel blast and the opportunity had been taken to arrange a Cabinet photograph . |
2 | In Bristol and Coventry three years prior to this , a decision had been taken to replace a batch personnel system with an on-line internally developed IMS package , covering recruitment , personnel administration/records , training and management information . |
3 | The Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Treaty , first signed in 1948 [ see p. 9228 ] , bound Finland to a military defence pact and prevented it from joining any international organization whose members posed a military threat to the Soviet Union — a definition which had been taken to include the EC . |
4 | By then , the critical decision had been taken to restrict the flow of refugee children into Britain . |
5 | A spokeswoman for Cadbury said no decision had been taken to stop the television advert in which Rachel is shown eating a Flake while lying in a bath . |
6 | The district officer wanted to know if suitable precautions had been taken to avoid the elephants . |
7 | He added that part of the difficulty before the Pacific War had resulted from low labour costs ; steps had been taken to raise the cost of labour to an appropriate level . |
8 | The Commissioners awarded an initial penalty of £125 , as they were not satisfied that all reasonable steps had been taken to obtain the information . |
9 | In fact , there was a widespread suspicion that the decision to stop the race at the halfway mark , when conditions were actually lightening , had been taken to favour the darling of France . |