Example sentences of "[was/were] taken [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some steps against pluralism were taken at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , but an altogether more far-reaching measure was promulgated at the Council of Lyons in 1274 . |
| 2 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 3 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 4 | Further practical steps were taken following the second amendment to make the SDR ‘ the principal reserve asset ’ : |
| 5 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 6 | More than £250,000 gate money was taken for the second day of the June test against Pakistan , and the decision could open the floodgates for other claims . |
| 7 | Last summer , the House of Representatives passed a bill funding the full $1.8bn requested by the Navy , but the vote was taken before the second sea test failure . |
| 8 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 9 | A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum , and routinely processed for histological examination . |
| 10 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 11 | The salute was taken by the First Sea Lord , Admiral Sir Benjamin Bathurst , Lord Sterling , the President of the Chamber of Shipping , Edmund Vestey and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool . |