Example sentences of "[was/were] taken [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers present at the two events were taken through a questionnaire on the day of the study , followed by a shorter questionnaire a week later ( by phone or post ) and four weeks later ( by post ) . |
| 2 | If donations were taken at a service , they were left at the door either on the way in or on the way out . |
| 3 | Three subjects were taken at A level and they were usually taken as packages of closely related studies : physics , chemistry , and mathematics ; French , German , and English ; history , geography , and economics . |
| 4 | With strangers the preliminaries were taken at a more gingerly pace . |
| 5 | The rest of us were taken at a more sedate pace for a check-up at the hospital . |
| 6 | Each field started with 95 cells and images were taken at a rate of 12 frames per hour . |
| 7 | The photographs were taken at a high water level . |
| 8 | She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive . |
| 9 | Thus the NEB 's reassurances were taken with a strong dose of salt . |
| 10 | Influenced by developments such as these , substantial public support began to develop for measures which would protect the position of the indigenous nationalities and which would ensure that economic decisions were taken with a greater degree of consideration for local circumstances . |
| 11 | General photographs ( ‘ body maps ’ ) were taken with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome colour slide film . |
| 12 | Transmission electron micrographs were taken with a Joel JEM100CX microscope at magnifications ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 . |
| 13 | The soldiers , carrying pistols and M-16 rifles , got into a pickup truck outside the hotel and were taken to a Salvadorean military installation . |
| 14 | All four were taken to a hotel to go through the agonising ordeal of kissing goodbye to the baby they had thought was theirs . |
| 15 | The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a hangar at Schiphol . |
| 16 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 17 | After a few days , we were taken to a camp for women and children north of Perpignan , where there was food and shelter , although not enough of either . |
| 18 | Next morning we were taken to a small village nearby , on a patch of dry ground in the middle of a bog , and on this uninviting spot the chief , an aged , autocratic savage called Afleodham , instructed us to camp . |
| 19 | Once at the Prince Albert Street police station , Amaranth and her escort were taken to a small , comfortably furnished room where they were interviewed by a woman detective . |
| 20 | They were taken to a room with walls of glass , overlooked by a central console with nurses in attendance . |
| 21 | Patricia Holding , from Durham County Council , told the court more than 30 drums of hazardous paint stripper were taken to a dump at Heighington Lane , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 22 | After lectures from two British Airways pilots and a clinical psychologist , 80 people were taken for a short flight . |
| 23 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
| 24 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 25 | A black and white television and cash were taken during a burglary at a bedsit in Corporation Road on Saturday . |
| 26 | In 14 of the latter , the spaces between sections were too large or the thoracic examinations were taken without a lung window , and 3 non-seminoma patients had no thoracic diagnostic CT . |
| 27 | Broadly speaking the responses were taken as a reaffirmation of the existing partnership at two levels — between the Council and institutions , and between subject boards and academic staff : ‘ the mechanisms proposed in the paper for modifying the partnership had clearly been rejected ’ , but the rejection of the proposals did not mean that the matter could there rest . |
| 28 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 29 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 30 | A porter let us in and we were taken into a great yard . |