Example sentences of "be taken into the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Of these , Busia was to make his mark later : an Oxford graduate , the first African to be taken into the Colonial Service ( in 1942 ) , he was exactly the type the British would have preferred .
2 It meant that no more Slavs should be taken into the Dual Empire , because that would distort the balance of races there .
3 Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service .
4 On the contrary in shallow breathing , sometimes known as clavicular breathing , quick , shallow breaths are taken into the upper part of the chest .
5 Instead of swallowing them , however , the eggs are taken into the vocal sac which is unusually large and extends right down the underside of the male 's body .
6 He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine .
7 The highlight of the trip for the boys was when they were taken into the 747 cockpit halfway through the flight .
8 As I have already hinted , there had always been a biochemical puzzle about how proteins or RNA might work in these transfer experiments , because all such large molecules are rapidly degraded in the gut and broken down into their component amino or nucleic acids before being taken into the general metabolism of the recipient .
9 After being taken into the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children on January 24 , the infection had spread and Stephen was put on a course of antibiotics .
10 If a walk is taken into the higher fastnesses of the glen , as may quite easily be done for several miles , more and more appear in succession ; indeed , there is a through route for walkers , not available to those who have to return to parked cars , all the way to Loch Treig and Corrour Station : a memorable expedition .
11 " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes .
12 Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade .
13 Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out .
14 Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand , a laborious task .
15 I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another .
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