Example sentences of "[was/were] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Earlier , during a visit to Southampton , he denied party strategy had been hi-jacked by the debate over proportional representation , disclosing that the decision to highlight constitutional issues on Democracy Day was taken a fortnight ago . |
| 3 | The decision to sell was taken a year before the deal was done and the company looked at 11 different suitors before picking Shandwick . |
| 4 | Back in the 1940s , though , it was taken a lot more seriously , so that actually getting to the point where you popped the question was a big commitment . ’ |
| 5 | This kind of coordination between constituent cells in a colony was taken a stage further , probably between 800 to 1000 million years ago — some time in October in our calendar — when sponges appeared . |
| 6 | The relationship was taken a stage further in the following year , when the Prime Warden accepted for himself and his successors the office of Patron of the School . |
| 7 | During Kimon 's absence , the democratization of the Athenian constitution was taken a stage further : the Areopagus , the upper council in the Athenian state , composed of ex-archons , was deprived of its political and legal functions , other than those which concerned a few cases of homicide . |
| 8 | The ‘ silence over race ’ was breached in 1980–1 , but in 1985 debate about racial issues was taken a step further . |
| 9 | The case itself was taken a step further to consider the effect of the various documents in the light of section 10 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , which prohibits exclusion clauses in one contract , which purport to affect another agreement . |
| 10 | The attempt to disguise the fact that the decision itself was not made in or by the Cortes , was taken a step further with the announcement that the Law of Succession would be submitted to popular consideration in a national referendum on 6 July 1947 . |