Example sentences of "[being] take [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the certificate programme except in exceptional cases .
2 Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the Diploma Programme except in exceptional circumstances .
3 Thus aggression is often taken as synonymous with violence ; violent behaviour being taken as proof of the existence of an inner state called aggression .
4 Local authorities will have a duty to keep the streets clean , on pain of being taken to court by members of the public .
5 Bureaux that ignore the new laws run the risk of being taken to court by local trading standards authorities , and fined .
6 A CHILEAN boxing champion is on a hunger strike and an Argentinian doctor is being taken to court as a result of an attempt by doctors to put an end to professional boxing in Chile .
7 For a tradesman or businessman to allow himself to become over indebted to the extent of being taken to court , let alone jailed , remained a slur if not , at least temporarily , a disgrace and a mark of unreliability .
8 Offences such as wasting police time and perverting the course of justice could be considered , with the possibility of both being taken to court as drivers and letting the court decide .
9 The vicar is being taken to court by his own church leaders over the state of his rectory , where the garden has been turned into a farmyard .
10 Mr Probyn can be held at Gloucester police station for only another hour without either being taken to court or released .
11 At a time of an election when MPs at least pretend to listen to voters , object strongly and question the legality of a law which can lead to people who have paid all their poll tax being taken to court for refusing to pay non-payers ' debts .
12 They 're being taken to court and made to pay .
13 Not a lot of weight as you imagine because they 're all little tiny sprigs this high , and obviously what they are going to do , they were being taken to south Wales where they going to start off a new little forest presumably .
14 I remember too being taken to school for the first time .
15 just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first .
16 He was then able to sleep for about half an hour before being taken to theatre .
17 When doctors told her early on January 26 that the baby was seriously ill and was being taken to theatre for an operation , she asked them : ‘ How come you left it so late ? ’
18 George Wallace meets with them regularly and John Murphy , Manager Service Quality Development is enthusiastic about the positive approach being taken to customer service by Technology .
19 As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow .
20 He was treated for shock by an off-duty doctor at the airfield before being taken to hospital , from where he was later discharged .
21 He was rescucitated by the nurse , before being taken to hospital .
22 The woman , who has not yet been named but is aged about 50 , was trapped in her car and had to be freed by firemen before being taken to hospital with back and neck injuries .
23 The differing roles of the parties and the judge in the process of taking evidence have practical implications when it comes to evidence being taken for use in a country with a different procedural tradition .
24 Specimens should be planted as closely as possible two or three weeks before being taken on board and then kept on deck , covered in bad weather with a tarpaulin against salt spray , a precaution made unnecessary after the invention of the Wardian case .
25 All those factors are being taken on board .
26 Works and health committee chairwoman Eleanor Young said she was delighted the report was being taken on board .
27 It will examine 16-18 year-old pupils ' responses to arguments about science-based social issues as presented in video/TV programmes , through small group discussions and relate this to two types of science course being taken at school by students of comparable ability — Science , Technology and Society ( STS ) courses , and more formal science courses .
28 He 'd been pleased with his magnanimous administration of justice , but this new development looked as if advantage was being taken of weakness .
29 A broader view than formerly is being taken of music from outside the rich Anglican and English traditions .
30 The survey confirmed that management interference in team operations had increased , and instances of management decisions being taken without team consultation had also increased .
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