Example sentences of "[noun] [be] taken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 2 | There 's a Caring at Christmas campaign in Bristol , and in Milton Keynes the Homeless Persons Enterprise runs a two-week programme embracing Christmas and the New Year in which entertainers are taken on as well as general volunteers . |
| 3 | Many hours are taken up with writing notes and minutes , with the loyal support of our Secretary , who still manages to ‘ smile and sing under all difficulties ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ But my Eustace hav been taken away . |
| 5 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 6 | Extreme opinions are taken up — which is not easy to understand when you consider the principles involved . |
| 7 | These aspects of the use of a current income measure are taken up again in Section 9–4 when we discuss the empirical evidence ; in the theoretical sections we concentrate on the lifetime measure . |
| 8 | No special preparation is required : dry , stained surfaces are taken immediately to the acetone flooding stage ( see below ) . |
| 9 | When mallards are taken away from |
| 10 | That , as we saw in Chapter 4 , is the nature of truth : it is a continuing discourse , in which rival views are taken forward . |
| 11 | Results from male-identified methods are taken more seriously by psychologists , by the institutions that support psychological research , and by the public to whom the results diffuse . |
| 12 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 13 | Here only the place-names refer to france ; the junipers , the spruce and fir , and the falling snow are taken over by Pound from a landscape at the other side of the world . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 15 | Subjects are taken back to childhood by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged , which leaves them feeling helpless and vulnerable . |
| 16 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 17 | Routine contractual visits are made by appointment to ensure that lifts are taken out of service for routine maintenance only at times convenient to the hotel |
| 18 | The clients are taken in and out of the stock , then sometimes settle back in it before the account is over . |
| 19 | We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier . |
| 20 | Within the New Testament concepts from the Old Testament are taken up and spiritualised , for example ‘ messiah ’ , ‘ Son of Man ’ and ‘ Kingdom of Heaven ’ . |
| 21 | Many pages of equestrian text books are taken up describing the ideal physical conformation of the horse , and how to judge good conformation when buying a horse . |
| 22 | Books are taken out , and if they 're put back at all it 's never in the same place . |
| 23 | The report recommends that both the fossil fuel levy and the liabilities inherited by Nuclear Electric be taken away from the company and vested in a separate trust fund . |
| 24 | Only if other scientists are able to obtain the same results using similar methods of operation , will a result be taken seriously and treated to further tests . |
| 25 | Professor Jacobs even states that ‘ it would be proper , for example , if it were regarded as desirable … to require that agricultural and environmental considerations be taken together in the assessment of eligibility for support ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The United States declared that all non-humanitarian US economic support would be withheld " until the democratic process is restored " ; nor would action be taken on Romania 's bid to regain " most favoured nation " trade status , which would allow low tariffs for exports to the USA . |
| 28 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 29 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 30 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |