Example sentences of "taken at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piece needs to be taken at a good pace and in high spirits . |
| 2 | Must be taken at the same time daily or no more than three hours late . |
| 3 | Teaching children should always be taken at the child 's pace , answering questions as truthfully and accurately as possible , rather than trying to tell the whole story . |
| 4 | Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well . |
| 5 | The pressure is on him because Britain has taken at least one world title in the women 's event since the competition began in 1980 . |
| 6 | Yet this low-speed firmness can transform itself : on undulating secondaries taken at speed the chassis composure of the Carrera 4 is faultless . |
| 7 | The decision to expand outside national boundaries is therefore usually taken at some later stage in their development , and this section reviews the factors that may be taken into account in arriving at a decision which fundamentally alters the nature and scope of a company 's activities . |
| 8 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 9 | All expenses are paid by the band 's members as with any hobby , so an accountant does n't need to be involved , although there are certain precautionary steps which should be taken at this early stage . |
| 10 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |
| 11 | Mars bars , a rip-off at three times the UK price , taken at regular intervals , got us there . |
| 12 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 13 | Figures taken at 7744 miles by our own staff at the Lotus group proving ground , Millbrook . |
| 14 | Experiments in which sleep was taken at different times have shown that REM sleep is very little affected by external factors , with most REM activity in the hours between 8 o'clock and noon , and least in the hours just before midnight . |
| 15 | If sleep is taken at an unusual time , the changes associated with it ( the release of some hormones , the type of sleep ) will be affected to different extents depending on whether they are dominated by external factors or the body clock . |
| 16 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 17 | After a breakfast taken at a marginally more leisured pace than normal , those recruits due to parade that day return to the platoon lines to add finishing touches to the uniforms and equipment to be worn later in the morning . |
| 18 | All did not go against the Key Company , however ; prisoners were taken at some of the incidents , some carrying vital information . |
| 19 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 20 | The second government measure increased producers ' bargaining power with financiers by reserving for British films a portion of the money taken at the domestic box office . |
| 21 | The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the two committees which adopted ‘ a programme of party action to strengthen perestroika ’ . |
| 22 | The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the two committees which adopted ‘ a programme of party action to strengthen perestroika ’ . |
| 23 | A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed . |
| 24 | The decision to escalate the action in Surrey for 24 hours from 7am on New Year 's Eve was taken at a meeting in Redhill . |
| 25 | They are run by Japanese , the real decisions are taken at head office , foreigners have no chance of promotion , and all the fancy design work is done at home , leaving the overseas factory as just an assembly plant for imported components . |
| 26 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 27 | Mr Delors claims that ‘ binding procedures ’ do not break the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ — the idea that decisions should be taken at EC level only when it makes sense to do so . |
| 28 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 29 | The leaders — Castle Falis , Princeful , Kapeno , Rondetto and Rutherfords — swept over Becher 's and made for the twenty-third fence , the smallest on the course and , though taken at a left-hand angle , a simple preliminary to the trappy right-angled bend to the left at the Canal Turn . |
| 30 | Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie . |