Example sentences of "[noun] was taken [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 2 | So no action was taken on the ideas of the Layfield Committee . |
| 3 | Action was taken on the poll tax . |
| 4 | No legal action was taken so the locals were left to seethe with no redress . |
| 5 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 6 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 7 | Thus evidence was taken on the need for the bill and why it was proposed to deal with problems in a particular way . |
| 8 | As a result , Frank Bates was taken on the strength . |
| 9 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 10 | In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient . |
| 11 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 12 | An urgent decision was taken on the surface that the men would have to be brought out in groups of three . |
| 13 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 14 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 15 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |