Example sentences of "be take to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 2 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 3 | Nor is the law an arid statement of ideals , for defaulters may be taken to court by their partners . |
| 4 | Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) . |
| 5 | THE 7,000 poll tax defaulters in Darlington should be taken to court in a bid to stop the cash being collected from those who have already paid , it was urged yesterday . |
| 6 | That was bad , Mrs should be taken to task for that . |
| 7 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 8 | Anyone who tried this line of argument would be taken to task by the pollsters , who have a commercial interest in resisting such reasoning . |
| 9 | The seven deny attempting to wound security forces , and causing an explosion and actual bodily harm to a local man , who had to be taken to hospital with head injuries when the coffee jar device exploded . |
| 10 | She had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 11 | She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 12 | WOMAN soccer ref Marilyn Kelly , 47 , had to be taken to hospital after a fan head-butted her . |
| 13 | He was expected to be taken to hospital by air ambulance . |
| 14 | All the same , you will be taken to hospital in Panama City , purely as a precaution , ’ their rescuer advised . |
| 15 | Landlords are taken to task over standards |
| 16 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 17 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 18 | Try not to leave teapots or cups of drink within a child 's reach — 50,000 children a year are taken to hospital with burns and scalds , the majority from spilling cups , mugs and kettles . |
| 19 | More than 100 people a week are taken to hospital after hurting themselves on supermarket trolleys . |
| 20 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |
| 21 | I hasten to add before I am taken to court by mountain men with beards that this is highly irresponsible behaviour and extremely dangerous . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The DIY store B and Q has been taken to court for allegedly breaking the law by trading on a Sunday . |
| 24 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 25 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 26 | When , in the mid-Eighties , Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons stated that ‘ red is the new black ’ ( narrowly beating Diana Vreelands ' ‘ pink is the navy blue of India ’ observation in the Pretentious Fashion Statement stakes ) , it appeared to have been taken to heart by the designers of football kits . |
| 27 | An ambulance spokesman said that one other man has been taken to hospital with pelvic injuries . |
| 28 | A man 's been taken to hospital with a chest injury after a road accident near Bicester . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After he had been taken to hospital by ambulance the judge , Lord Morison , adjourned the trial until Monday . |