Example sentences of "taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best taken aboard the boats Growler and Mariner 11 at 7 lb . |
| 2 | They were taken aboard the fishing boat , and they found the only word they had in common with the fishermen was Koepang . |
| 3 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 4 | Secondly , there is the problem of the Northern catholic community , which tends to be taken as a monolithic nationalist community . |
| 5 | He paused , and this was taken as a signal for a round of cheers and shouts . |
| 6 | For telegraphic traffic however it is taken as 48 . |
| 7 | The rigidity of American standards is closely related to the seriousness with which meritocracy and classlessness are taken as ideals . |
| 8 | Now North had the problem - would Three Spades be taken as a probe for no-trumps ( denying a guard in the suit ) or some sort of control-showing bid agreeing hearts ? |
| 9 | The inner cabinet was split along party lines six to six , but tied votes are taken as votes against , writes Charles Richards . |
| 10 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 11 | This should be taken as a message both to the Western allies and the Soviet Union that West Germany 's first concern is the gradual , well-disciplined reform of East German society , not the country 's destruction and its absorption into West Germany . |
| 12 | She was taken as a child from Virginia to the plains of Nebraska , whose earth and immigrant farmers form the subject of her central fiction . |
| 13 | However , ‘ fun ’ does not translate for the community relations policemen as something opposite to work : the ‘ fun ’ is taken as a serious job of work . |
| 14 | That would produce both balance and variety in the media taken as a whole . |
| 15 | The final Russian snub , though it does not appear to have been taken as such by the Belorussians , came in January 1921 when the Belorussian SSR was constituted . |
| 16 | It had recently withdrawn the ice-breaker Endurance , generally taken as a clear sign of retreat . |
| 17 | This was taken as proof that the class was inferior to , and separate from , the main school . |
| 18 | Charlie 's crack could be taken as a compliment and as such , to the relief of George and Jack , Maurice took it . |
| 19 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 20 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 21 | Pearson 's enforced demotion within his own company , and the distaste shown by his partners for experiments that veered too sharply away from the comedies that had established Welsh-Pearson 's reputation , is generally taken as evidence of the conservatism inherent in the film industry . |
| 22 | Last night , Mr Krenz told a Communist Party rally that the new travel regulations , allowing East Germans to go to the West whenever they wish , should be taken as proof that the government was ‘ serious about the policy of renewal ’ . |
| 23 | The implication was that Gen Noreiga 's bravado could in no legal sense be taken as a declaration of hostilities . |
| 24 | If the percentage increase in eps is taken as the key measure , companies which begin with very low earnings have an unfair advantage . |
| 25 | Music that could never be taken as light entertainment . |
| 26 | It had not been taken as a result of the breakdown in 1946 of Anglo-American atomic cooperation . |
| 27 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 28 | It feeds on a wide variety of fish — 43 different species are known to be taken as prey . |
| 29 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 30 | 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 . |