Example sentences of "[noun] taken [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family firm of Swannson-on-Wheels made a contract with Computex Ltd by exchange of correspondence , The following extract taken from a letter dated 30 July 1985 on Computex Ltd headed notepaper gives the essential terms of the haulage contract : |
| 2 | The test is done on a small sample of blood taken from a vein in the arm in the standard way . |
| 3 | So the influence on teachers ' attitudes is probably greater than any immediate action taken as a result of analysing one child 's miscues . |
| 4 | The most obvious example of such a sanction , of course , is the action taken by a state against those who break its laws . |
| 5 | ‘ Any action taken by a driver should be done properly . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was not honest help , and any action taken by a driver should be done properly . |
| 7 | This requires action taken by a trade union to be supported by a majority in a secret ballot of all those reasonably expected to take part in the action , and in view of the practicalities of organising a ballot and the fact that advance approval of action is valid for only four weeks puts a serious constraint upon the taking of effective action even where that has overwhelming support . |
| 8 | Villains snatched the rare bird when they entered Cockerton Aquatics in Darlington , using a spare key taken from a car two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | The Australian guidelines direct the court to consider , for example , the steps taken by a director to obtain information and to ensure that those from whom advice is sought are competent , to monitor decisions made by lower-tier management , and to monitor the company 's compliance with law . |
| 10 | A photograph taken from a BBC video clearly shows the young paceman doctoring the ball during the fifth Test match at the Oval . |
| 11 | However , the number of four letter words taken from a lexicon of approximately 14,000 English words is 1,323 . |
| 12 | The decision to disqualify Abdoujaparov was taken after viewing TV pictures taken from a helicopter . |
| 13 | A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed . |
| 14 | The average number of strokes taken by a tournament winner on the U.S. Tour is 68,2 per round , with the final round completed in an average of 67.8 strokes . |
| 15 | One close-up taken with a zoom lens . |
| 16 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 17 | PATRIOT GAMES Superior thriller taken from a Tom Clancy novel . |
| 18 | It measures the number of years taken for a shareholder to recover his initial investment ( assuming that all earnings are distributed ) ; alternatively , it measures the price an investor has to pay to buy 1 worth of income in the company . |
| 19 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 20 | There were several specimen fish taken including a pollack of 12 lbs 8 oz by Norman Reid of the Causeway Coast and another of 12 lbs 7 oz by Derek McLister of the AVX club . |
| 21 | That 's a picture taken from a helicopter or an aeroplane . |
| 22 | ‘ MUSICA internationale ’ was the theme taken by a schools music festival . |
| 23 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |
| 24 | She felt certain that he intended her no harm and her fear began to recede , its place taken by a surge of excitement and anticipation . |
| 25 | The silver cigar box on it was empty — the last £200 Corona taken by a mystery smoker before it could be sold . |
| 26 | Our readings this week are extracts taken from a book by Gene Kemp called Gowie Corby Plays Chicken . |
| 27 | The basis is the plc taken as a paradigm in the previous section . |
| 28 | Judgements about profitability , net worth , and creditworthiness are judgements about the PLC taken as a whole . |
| 29 | But in practice this has come to mean that the C. and A. G. examines , certifies and reports on the annual summarized accounts of the National Health Service taken as a whole , i.e. as the appropriation account presents them . |
| 30 | Yet when men were asked to smell swabs taken from a woman 's vagina at different times during the menstrual cycle , they found the smells least attractive at the time of ovulation . |