Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] taken [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures .
2 And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age .
3 To evaluate perinatal mortality rates as a method of auditing obstetric and neonatal care after account had been taken of transfer between hospitals during pregnancy and case mix .
4 Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed after a venous blood sample had been taken for determination of serum concentrations of urea , gastrin , and pepsinogen I. Immediately after passing the instrument , 10 ml of gastric juice were collected by means of a trap in the suction line .
5 A study by US scientist Stephen Leatherwood in 1984 suggested that between 2600 and 3000 black dolphins had been taken for crab bait in only two years .
6 Even after her father had been taken to court for the abuses his family suffered , he quickly began to turn his attention to the girls , including Penny — by then married and seven months pregnant .
7 So , although she was aware of getting ‘ red ’ letters , she never realised that she had been taken to court .
8 He felt sorry for his opponent , whose close friend and helper had been taken to hospital during the race , so he decided to give his spirits a lift by allowing him to win , but did so without letting anyone else realise exactly what was happening .
9 But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital .
10 Jonathan had been taken to hospital and his blood sugar level had been found to be abnormally low .
11 The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation .
12 After he had been taken to hospital by ambulance the judge , Lord Morison , adjourned the trial until Monday .
13 I learnt from Otto before I left that Ahmed had been taken into custody prior to being deported .
14 It appears to reflect a course of practice , developed during the latter part of the 19th century , to abstain from questioning , not after charge , but after the suspect had been taken into custody ; and it appears that in general any evidence obtained from such questioning was regarded as inadmissible : see Archbold 's Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 28th ed. ( 1931 ) , p. 407 .
15 They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered .
16 However , the West German CDU later pressed Schnur , who had been taken into hospital after collapsing with circulatory problems , to resign after the allegations had been further substantiated .
17 Her husband had been taken into hospital and she was waiting for her son to come and pick her up at half past twelve , this was at half past ten in morning !
18 Only four months before , eight South Ronaldsay children , all from one family , had been taken into care from school in front of all the other pupils .
19 These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November .
20 It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care .
21 Linda Williamson worked with the RSSPCC social worker , Liz McLean in most of the interviews with the eight children from Orkney 's large problem family , who had been taken into care in November 1990 .
22 Serious failures in parenting were also evident in the ex-care sample : one-fifth of their children had been taken into care and as many as one-third of the women had experienced some form of transient or permanent parenting breakdown with at least one of their children .
23 In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood .
24 After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing .
25 My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account , Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards .
26 By the time all these factors had been taken into account , any link between lead and impaired intelligence faded into statistical insignificance .
27 Kitty Bainbridge had not enjoyed her pregnancy , though she accepted that her family record had been taken into account when Donnington proposed .
28 For example , subjects in the 50th centile group had a birth weight lying between the 49th and 50th centiles after the above factors had been taken into account .
29 There were strong regional differences ( with the south being the least tolerant region ) after individual social and economic characteristics had been taken into account , however , and those regional differences did not decline over the period .
30 Inflation had been taken into account .
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