Example sentences of "[be] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument might be taken a step further . |
| 2 | Mr Martin Holgate , formerly chief scientist at the environment department and now director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources based in Geneva , will summarise the possible action to be taken a role which he performed brilliantly at the recent London ozone conference . |
| 3 | Cooperative acquisition may be taken a stage further if a system of centralized acquisition is introduced . |
| 4 | This affinity of a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers can be taken a stage further . |
| 5 | The plate can then be reworked in these areas or in fact the whole can be taken a stage further by laying another ground of resin and immersing in the acid again . |
| 6 | The argument supporting mode e can be taken a stage further . |
| 7 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 8 | This approach can be taken a stage further by introducing the marginal efficiency of investment ( MEI ) . |
| 9 | The teachers felt that they 'd put so much effort into it , that it er , should be taken a stage further , |
| 10 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 11 | In Ulster the application of the theory has been taken a stage further and much effort has been spent , in addition , on ways to discredit and alienate non-terrorist opponents of the government from their host populations . |
| 12 | One wartime May queen had just heard that her brother had been taken a prisoner-of-war , but insisted on going ahead with her duties . |
| 13 | Richard Chauncy 's improvements were taken a step further by William Henry Chauncy , who caused the village of Edgcote with its eighteen families to be removed from his prospect sometime before 1788 . |
| 14 | ‘ 'E 's taken a fancy to you , John mate . |
| 15 | You see , he 's taken a fancy to you , and it would be awful if he thought … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Mine 's taken a bit of a bashing lately , ’ Robbie admitted as she sat down to her own ice-cream . |
| 17 | There 's still plenty of hard work to be done keeping the Victorian rose garden in shape — it 's taken a battering by recent heavy rain , but will be in full bloom again soon . |
| 18 | He says it 's taken a year to edit , but it 's all been worth it . |
| 19 | It 's taken a year for Central to bring the show to our screens from the first talks with Tom in the USA . |
| 20 | It 's taken a year for this window to be repaired and replaced . |
| 21 | It 's taken a fortnight to get the oil out of my fingers , nightly doses of Ecover washing up liquid notwithstanding . |
| 22 | ‘ Mister Liston 's gone back upstairs , and he 's taken a lady with him . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's taken a taxi up to Pollensa — Casa Pinar , is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's taken a lot of my notorious skills at wheeling and dealing , but the bank are prepared to finance the deal on the strength of the new patent for the computerised cutting and sewing system , ’ Guy was saying , his voice flat and clipped . |
| 25 | It 's taken a lot of effort to get Charlie into his present condition . |
| 26 | ‘ Just as long as no one 's taken a room opposite , ’ I say . |
| 27 | He 's taken a break from the murky world of espionage to help his 5 year old Labrador unravel the mysteries of the canine psyche . |
| 28 | The important point is that the two-stage sampling process involves a sample of the primaries from each member of which is taken a sample of secondaries . |
| 29 | When the logic of the linguistic homology is taken a step further , the special status of language that literature is uniquely capable of revealing becomes apparent . |
| 30 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |