Example sentences of "[be] taken the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) If the provision of a specimen other than a specimen of breath may be required in pursuance of this section the question whether it is to be a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine shall be decided by the constable making the requirement , but if a medical practitioner is of the opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken the specimen shall be a specimen of urine . |
| 2 | ‘ The Egypt Committee ’ , Selwyn Lloyd remembered , ‘ would , however , continue to function , but if emergency decisions had to be taken the Cabinet would be recalled . ’ |
| 3 | Threadworm is easily treated but unless the following precautions are taken the problem may recur . |
| 4 | In the result the justices on the second day of the hearing , the evidence having been taken the day before and the justices having indicated that they had reached a decision but would give their reasons the next day , made not an interim care order but two prohibited steps orders . |
| 5 | Central ca n't film here because since these photographs were taken the air 's become too poisonous to breath . |
| 6 | The as regards to the other evidence , you have my two-page summary , er and therefore there is no risk of erm any erm leng length of time being taken the rest of . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's taken the money , but got us nothing to eat at all ! ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Chalk 's taken the day off … oh … ! ’ |
| 9 | It 's taken the fun out of being a model . |
| 10 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 11 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 12 | An award to a man who 's taken the future of the world into his own hands . |
| 13 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 14 | ‘ But that 's taken the pressure right off , ’ said jubilant Darlington captain Steve Rose . |
| 15 | " That 's taken the wind out of his sails . " |
| 16 | It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties . |
| 17 | It says , until firm decision is taken the staff would not be allowed to work within office buildings out of flexitime hours . |
| 18 | After winning the title against a disgracefully overweight Douglas , Holyfield was taken the distance by George Foreman and Larry Holmes , the division 's geriatric twins . |
| 19 | Almost as soon as this decision was taken the atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrendered . |
| 20 | The decision was taken the change to bus operation , and the last car — railcoach 268 — left Squires Gate for Manchester Square on 29 October 1961 . |
| 21 | And then I was taken the dog out slowly do you see , and the old vixen coming out forward do you see . |
| 22 | When every seat was taken the Foundling children filed to their places , filling the gallery where the organ stood like a turreted castle , girls on the left in snowy white , and darkly dressed boys on the right . |