Example sentences of "[be] take [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , however , evidence from a quite different experimental procedure that can be taken to confirm that retrieval mechanisms play an important role in the phenomena considered here . |
| 2 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 3 | This analysis might be taken to suggest that examples like [ 12 ] and [ 30 ] should be analysed as self-corrections . |
| 4 | This must not be taken to imply that Edward Crumwallis was unfit for his position . |
| 5 | Care should be taken to ensure that cover is in force as sickness is not covered under all PA policies . |
| 6 | Where possible , steps will be taken to ensure that publicity campaigns include specific messages targeted at this age group . |
| 7 | Acknowledging that the new government faced enormous problems in reconstructing the debt-ridden economy , Chiluba warned that subsidies on cornmeal would be removed , although he stressed that measures would be taken to ensure that people could afford this staple food . |
| 8 | Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter . |
| 9 | Care needs to be taken to ensure that regulation does not impair the efficiency of the financial system . |
| 10 | Contrasting shades can enliven a room by providing an invigorating tonal counterpoint , but care needs to be taken to ensure that colours do not clash . |
| 11 | strict precautions must be taken to ensure that media deterioration does not cause loss of archived material |
| 12 | Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that staff working for the vendors are not involved in work performed for the purchaser or vice versa . |
| 13 | By the same token they might also be taken to mean that Richard 's right to his duchy was independent of his father 's will . |
| 14 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | In framing the proposals , care has been taken to emphasise that information may frequently be given in summarised form . |
| 16 | What is more , the experimental results that have been taken to demonstrate that retrieval plays a part in latent inhibition can not demonstrate this failure to be the sole source of the effect — these experiments show that a CS-US association is indeed formed after latent inhibition training and can be revealed if the conditions of testing are appropriate ; they do not show convincingly that the association is just as strong as that formed in subjects given no pre-exposure to the target stimulus . |
| 17 | A strange story in Plutarch ( Moralia 806 ) , about Kleon , at the beginning of his career , summoning his friends , his philoi , and renouncing their friendship , has been taken to show that Kleon took his role as ‘ people 's friend ’ more seriously than his predecessors ; but this embarrassing-sounding scene is hard to visualize , and is of doubtful historicity , being attributed to no source , reputable or disreputable . |
| 18 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 19 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |
| 20 | In it , Lord Fraser wrote that measures are being taken to ensure that health boards are developing and implementing well targeted , well planned and well evaluated health promotion programmes . |
| 21 | Foster parents are paid a weekly allowance that covers the basic costs of maintaining a child , but care is taken to see that fostering does not become a materially profitable exercise . |
| 22 | Special care is taken to ensure that teachers understand and can interpret correctly for their students , the plants and wildlife they are likely to encounter along the way . |
| 23 | ( d ) That care is taken to ensure that overpayments do not occur , particularly when using method ( c ) above . |
| 24 | And if the allocation of statements of attainment to levels , and levels to ages , is arbitrary in part , then the allocation of pupils to levels must also be arbitrary in part , even if scrupulous care is taken to ensure that assessments are based on the best available evidence . |
| 25 | Care was taken to ensure that party propaganda had an impact not just in the capital , but also reached the provinces . |
| 26 | The result showed a slight , statistically insignificant , RHA , which was taken to suggest that sign language processing was more bilateral than spoken language processing . |
| 27 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |