Example sentences of "[am/are] taken by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Health , there is the special relief at having escaped from those incessant wrangles over money with income-orientated professions , whose members are taken by the general public for altruistic servants of humanity , if not for angelic comforters . |
| 2 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 3 | Secondly , the organisational model which until very recently has characterised the residential sector has been a centralised one , in which most administrative decisions are taken by the management staff in the headquarters of local authority social work departments . |
| 4 | They are taken by the Secretary , although the actual recording activity may be delegated to a Minute Secretary or Committee Clerk . |
| 5 | Constitutionally all major government decisions are taken by the Cabinet , a committee of senior government ministers . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone has a voice , no one commands , and decisions are taken by the will of the majority . |
| 7 | Such decisions , however , are taken by the police ; the public has no direct say . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that ‘ democratic deficit ’ does not refer to any notion that the Commission is too powerful , but rather to the idea that too many decisions are taken by the ‘ unelected ’ Council of Ministers , and that further powers should be transferred from this body and from national parliaments to the European Parliament at Strasbourg . |
| 9 | Of course , but decisions on the effective use of manpower are taken by the police authority and the police force . |
| 10 | So long as there is uncertainty about the matter , that must have a bearing on whether enforcement proceedings are taken by the Attorney-General up and down the country in a necessarily very large number of cases . |
| 11 | The Federal Republic of Germany has had both because of its electoral system and the decentralised way in which so much of Germany is governed , where many decisions are taken by the regions . |
| 12 | For the benefit of the clients , and also for the orderly conduct of the promotion , the agent will normally supply a table of steps , setting out clearly the various procedural steps required by the General Orders , in chronological order , and showing who precisely will be responsible for each step ; most of the steps are taken by the agent , but in some cases local newspaper advertisement and local service is undertaken by the client . |
| 13 | At the confirmation stage the agent really has very little function because the necessary steps are taken by the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | Strategic and policy decisions are taken by the Computer Consultative Group , which has a wider membership of specialist staff advising Management on computing issues , and the views of users are collated by a Computer Users ’ Group , which contains representatives from all Garden departments at all sites . |
| 15 | I think the regrettable thing about the parking in in the town is the way that some of the disabled slots at the surgery are taken by the cars of people who are perfectly able to walk from the car park , and I think the great problem we 're going to have is we 're going to rely on the public spiritedness of our fellow townspeople and there does seem to be a fair group of people who are extremely selfish when it comes to come to parking . |
| 16 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 17 | I feel 1 am transported into paradise where I am taken by the hand by Kabir the Weaver and led into the enchanted gardens where Li Po and Kalidas and Rumi sing forever . |