Example sentences of "be taken [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on . |
| 8 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 9 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 10 | Erm the editors say that , and I rely upon this because it 's important in my submission , that it is submitted that a wider view might be taken as the function of a solicitor as expert witnesses . |
| 11 | But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom . |
| 12 | However , the NIAAF are emphasising that the number travelling to Holland is not to be taken as the number likely to go the Commonwealth Games . |
| 13 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 14 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |
| 15 | The current expenditure on these tax benefits would be taken as the cash ceiling . |
| 16 | ‘ Shake ’ could be taken as the fear the poet has for the ‘ cold ’ of oncoming death and ‘ ruined ’ illuminates the idea of deterioration . |
| 17 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 18 | The idea of ‘ flooded classrooms ’ might be taken as the product of bureaucratic desperation . |
| 19 | The buoyancy force is provided by δρ c ( which is , in the first place , the difference between upgoing and downgoing fingers , but , in view of the above discussion , may be taken as the difference between top and bottom ) . |
| 20 | I think I need to say on that , that that should not be taken as the county council sitting on the fence between two opposing er extremes . |
| 21 | In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured . |
| 22 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 23 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 24 | It is , however , the financial losses of retirement from the labour force that seem usually to be taken as the key to the involuntary shift from independence to dependency in old age . |
| 25 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 26 | The doctor 's certificate must be taken to the Registrar of Births and Deaths in the registration sub-district where the death occurred , normally within five days . |
| 27 | Given the ecumenical spirit which has prevailed in many school religious assemblies for a number of years , it was hardly surprising that serious objection would be taken to the emphasis on Christian traditions that was incorporated into the law on collective worship . |
| 28 | He called the RAC once more and arranged for the car to be taken to the edge of Brighton . |
| 29 | Need to be taken to the toilet at routine intervals , usually two-hourly . |
| 30 | Ironically , the generosity of the IWA in guaranteeing funds to enable the question of the Rights of Way Act to be taken to the Court of Appeal seems to have resulted in many believing that the issue is only the concern of the ‘ powered boaters ’ . |