Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |
| 2 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client-server applications . |
| 3 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client/server applications . |
| 4 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 5 | The issue is to be taken up in a joint approach to the Welsh Office . |
| 6 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 7 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 8 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 9 | This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley 's leadership style . |
| 10 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 11 | ( Doane 1984 ) The issue of the female viewer 's possibilities for identification was taken up in a different way in the work of Janet Bergstrom and in Laura Mulvey 's own ‘ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' ’ . |
| 12 | After removing the glass , the sidelights can be taken out in a similar way . |