Example sentences of "taken across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At lunchtime she was taken across the road to the paper 's local , The Cross Keys , to meet the gang , at which initiation she remembered in particular a short , genial , Punch-like ‘ ex-RAF type ’ ( as he liked to call himself ) named Arthur Eperon , who later became a well-known travel writer . |
| 2 | Taken across the industry , the Treasury has confirmed that 600,000 elderly people benefit from the relief which costs the Treasury some £50 million in ‘ lost ’ revenue . |
| 3 | Our environmental goals can not be successfully achieved unless action is taken across the Community . |
| 4 | It demonstrates the imperative that solid forward progress will depend on action taken across the broad front of endeavour . |
| 5 | The two men were taken across the muir to Priesthill , where Isabel was waiting with her children in front of the cottage . |
| 6 | When the weaving yarn has been taken across the complete row , push it back until it is just in front of the sinkers and knit the row . |
| 7 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 8 | By the middle of the eighteenth century about 70,000 slaves a year were being taken across the Atlantic , half of them in British ships . |
| 9 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 10 | Those with high ROI tend to experience falls in ROI and those with low ROI tend to have increases , taken across the whole population . |
| 11 | He was taken across the yard , down a narrow passageway lined with stuffed brown paper sacks of confidential waste , and through the door at its end into the Vine Street Charge Room . |
| 12 | About an hour before midnight , Cleo and Javelot were taken across the yard and up a rickety stair on the outside of the main house . |
| 13 | They have been taken across the border — illegally . |
| 14 | Taken across the week the total readership soars to 719,000 or 61pc of the adult population . |
| 15 | When my tour ended we were taken across the route to Damascus in the Nairn transport . |