Example sentences of "[being] take [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many badge flights are invalidated by poor photography or by good photographs being taken outside the correct photographic zone . |
| 2 | The whole thing seemed to be over with in five minutes — I 'd hardly sat down before I was being taken down the steps to the police cells . |
| 3 | The whispered words were the first brave Leslie , 29 , spoke after regaining consciousness and being taken off a life support machine . |
| 4 | Medical reports exist that show a woman being taken off the pill by her doctor after complaining of a rattling in her chest whenever she coughed . |
| 5 | The action could have resulted in Sindy dolls being taken off the shelves , as they were in France when a local court decided Sindy had violated copyright . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in Europe , freight is being taken off the roads . |
| 7 | While the increase is encouraging , scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service warn that the blue whale is still a long way from being taken off the endangered species list . |
| 8 | I know , I say that , and the , the only thing is I was upset over the Leah Manning , being taken off the ambulance you see and whether I will get back I 'm hoping I will because erm he said he will let me know before Christmas so I think he will , he came to Leah Manning to visit me any rights to see me about it , so it was good of him really |
| 9 | DEREK IRONSIDE Home and dry : oil workers arrive safely at Aberdeen Airport after being taken off the North Sea accommodation vessel by helicopter Floating free : yesterday 's picture , from an RAF helicopter , of the Safe Supporter ‘ flotel ’ |
| 10 | TOP Liverpool radio DJ Tony Snell was due to meet station bosses today after being taken off the air over a live bust-up with a listener . |
| 11 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 12 | By the middle of the eighteenth century about 70,000 slaves a year were being taken across the Atlantic , half of them in British ships . |
| 13 | In addition to the staff reductions , cost-saving measures being taken under the restructuring include consolidation of excess facilities , write-down of inventory , and elimination of some balance sheet intangibles . |
| 14 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment is being taken as a shift to the left , particularly in view of the exclusion of seven of the centrist ministers , and as a shift towards protectionism , with the departure of Roger Fauroux , the old cabinet 's loudest free-trader . |
| 15 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 16 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 17 | Menstrual cycles can vary between 22 and 35 days , 28 days being taken as an average , which is why it can be difficult for an individual to be sure when ovulation has occurred . |
| 18 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 19 | Why was he being taken to a government building ? |
| 20 | Only a few gondolas glided past , and in the distance barges laden with fruit and vegetables were being taken to a market . |
| 21 | He was being taken to a special boarding school when he gave teachers escorting him the slip . |
| 22 | They were allowed twenty two sparse words before being taken to a Nazi Concentration camp . |
| 23 | TORY bosses are being taken to an industrial tribunal today — because they sacked their agent . |
| 24 | Rollo loved being taken to the gilt and plush ambience of Rules in Covent Garden , to which his riposte was Lock-Obers in Boston , which he protested was not so good . |
| 25 | The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 26 | Before being taken to the platform , he was introduced to those members of the Committee who happened to be milling around the entrance . |
| 27 | THE NATIONAL Trust is being taken to the High Court in a test case that could halt all Sunday trading at its souvenir and garden centres . |
| 28 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 29 | A Nottinghamshire miner 's daughter remembers being taken to the fair by a ninety-year-old great-grandfather , a very big man , bony man . |
| 30 | They were a group of 130 citizens , headed by their Burgomaster from the small Dutch town of Haren , who were received in Church House before being taken to the homes of their local hosts . |