Example sentences of "be taken [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 2 | We hope to stage another competition next year , but this time the photos will have to be taken during the year to be eligible . ’ |
| 3 | In turn , the gravels are themselves overlain by alluvial silty uniform sands around the junction with A8 and by lacustrine silty clay , peat and silt , associated with the former Gogar Loch , around the Gogar Burn and along South Gyle Broadway , and special measures had to be taken during the construction of embankments in these areas in order to avoid over-stressing the sub-strata and to accelerate the anticipated settlements . |
| 4 | Special care must always be taken during the climb away if single-strand wire is being used , because there is no sudden jerk or noise if a kink breaks early on the launch . |
| 5 | In warm weather , dehydration is a serious problem , and sufficient liquid must be taken during the flight even if this has its disadvantages afterwards ! |
| 6 | — effects that depend on the arrival time of words can be modelled , allowing ’ snapshots ’ to be taken during the processing of a sentence that induces a ’ cognitive double-take ’ ; |
| 7 | Furthermore , central committee members from the Bosnia-Hercegovina LC staged a walkout in the course of the session after LCY presidium president Milan Pancevski ( Macedonia ) and acting presidium secretary Petar Skundric ( Serbia ) had tried to insist that a decision on resuming the congress be taken without a quorum . |
| 8 | This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on . |
| 9 | Any deviation from this in practice would be taken as a constraint , the analysis having revealed where such constraints are necessary so they can be taken into account when carrying out the audit . |
| 10 | The illustration should not be taken as a forecast , and the actual policy proceeds may be higher or lower than the amounts illustrated , depending on future investment conditions . |
| 11 | The illustration should not be taken as a forecast and the actual policy proceeds may be higher or lower than the amounts illustrated , depending on future investment conditions . |
| 12 | Many of the theories may be taken as a kind of realignment of astronomical perspectives ; a process of taxonomic refinement . |
| 13 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 14 | Our table lists the factor that influences most choices — the price per gallon — but this should not be taken as a measure of value for money merely as an indicator of price . |
| 15 | Thus , in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew — a unique example of a play outside the play , not to be taken as a measure by which the rest of the play must be dismissed for lacking seriousness — the tinker Christopher Sly , brought back in a drunken stupor to the house of a mischievous lord , is deceived into thinking that he is really a gentleman . |
| 16 | The magnitude may be taken as a measure of the inflationary bias which is imparted to the system by non-competitive forces , the most obvious of these forces being the influence of trades unions in the wage bargaining process . |
| 17 | The real wage rate w which reconciles the target real wage with the feasible real wage at NAIRU should not be taken as a measure of Keynes 's ‘ marginal disutility of employment ’ . |
| 18 | If fruits , trees , and plants are images of labour for Mary Leapor , these lines can be taken as a criticism of owners reorganizing the land . |
| 19 | Thus it is assumed that the attitude-holder might possess certain beliefs , whose content implicitly can be taken as a criticism of counter-stances , but these stances may not yet have been historically realized in argument . |
| 20 | But Ward re-asserted BAF 's belief that ‘ ignorance on the part of an athlete can not be taken as a plea of not guilty . |
| 21 | This should be taken as a message both to the Western allies and the Soviet Union that West Germany 's first concern is the gradual , well-disciplined reform of East German society , not the country 's destruction and its absorption into West Germany . |
| 22 | Joint honours in Agriculture , Forestry and Rural Economy can be taken as a degree in Agriculture or as a degree in Ecological Science . |
| 23 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 24 | The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline . |
| 25 | Any touch of white on their black coats might be taken as a sign that they were not , after all , cats consecrated to the Devil . |
| 26 | Inaction would likewise be taken as a sign of weakness by the French people themselves . |
| 27 | The publication of results need not be taken as a threat to a good education system . |
| 28 | But the assumption of an explanatory method which can be taken as a priori ‘ above ’ all other social experience and cultural production is itself , when analysed , a fact in the sociology of a particular phase of culture . |
| 29 | A good deal of what he wrote may be taken as a rejection of the ‘ liberal interpretation of history ’ , and indeed of the ‘ liberal humanist tradition ’ in literature ; nevertheless the centre of his story is the Ring and the maxim that ‘ power corrupts ’ , a concept unimpeachably modern , democratic , anti-though not un-heroic . |
| 30 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |