Example sentences of "been take [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 2 | For concreteness , we focus on the corporation tax , which has been taken as the main application of the analysis . |
| 3 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 4 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 5 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 10 | Although Read 's will was far more detailed than Sir Edmond 's , the circumstances surrounding its execution are rather more obscure ; certainly little notice appears to have been taken of the complicated procedure for appointment . |
| 11 | ‘ Every step in my plan has been taken with the Divine help ’ |
| 12 | The cereals grown would have been taken down the long lane to the water mill to be ground for flour , whilst vegetables , poultry and perhaps pigs would have been raised in the crofts behind each farmstead in the village street . |
| 13 | When the weaving yarn has been taken across the complete row , push it back until it is just in front of the sinkers and knit the row . |
| 14 | Replying to a protest by the UK Labour Party , which described the ban on Vietnam as " a ridiculous embargo " , a UK Foreign Office spokesman said that only one former communist country — the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) — had been taken off the banned list , after unification with the Federal Republic of Germany ( FDR ) on Oct. 3 [ see pp. 37761-63 ] . |
| 15 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 16 | Bowen C.J. held that the listing decision had not been taken under the treaty-making power , and that the Cabinet was not acting under any internationally binding obligation . |
| 17 | Access to Cultins Road had previously been taken from the small roundabout immediately east of the Union Canal . |
| 18 | The stone is thought to have originally been taken from the sacred island of Iona to the island of North Rona where it formed part of the church altar . |
| 19 | There were indications that some articles had been taken from the Soviet Union 's constitution but there was little evidence of other constitutions having been consulted except , curiously , for the Meiji constitution in Japan . |
| 20 | Stocks of exclusive children 's fashions have been taken from the Wobbly Jelly store in Oxford . |
| 21 | The phrase has been taken from the acratic discourse of medicine and literalized , universalized as an encratic discourse or system of belief . |
| 22 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 23 | Cheshire Fire Brigade who set up an emergency operation centre on site said the cloud had been taken by the prevailing wind east of Northwich . |
| 24 | Now be be sure that it 's all in the pre-packs , it 's been taken by the pre-pack department |
| 25 | In 1984 , when his successful playing career still had a few years to run , and his gambler 's mantle had been taken by the rugged striker Alan Brazil , Macari moved into management with Swindon Town . |
| 26 | Saddam Hussein 's decision , in compliance with UN Resolutions 664 , 667 and 674 [ see pp. 37639 ; 37759 ] , was cautiously welcomed by US President Bush , who emphasized , however , that " no single hostage should have been taken in the first place " . |
| 27 | The opportunity has been taken in the new version to rewrite the material , to make it clearer and more accessible for the reader . |
| 28 | A number of measures have been taken in the 1980 Housing Act to help release more rented accommodation . |
| 29 | A photograph of an older daughter of the family , then a student , had been taken in the small conservatory that leads into the house . |
| 30 | Great care has been taken in the current depression , for example , to construct the image of scrounging , fiddling , laziness and greed as characteristic of the unemployed who ‘ could find work if they really wanted to ’ or whose misfortune can be explained by ‘ the irresponsible pay demands and restrictive practices ’ of those still in work . |