Example sentences of "being taken [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many badge flights are invalidated by poor photography or by good photographs being taken outside the correct photographic zone . |
| 2 | While the increase is encouraging , scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service warn that the blue whale is still a long way from being taken off the endangered species list . |
| 3 | They were allowed twenty two sparse words before being taken to a Nazi Concentration camp . |
| 4 | He was being taken to a special boarding school when he gave teachers escorting him the slip . |
| 5 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 6 | TORY bosses are being taken to an industrial tribunal today — because they sacked their agent . |
| 7 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 8 | THE NATIONAL Trust is being taken to the High Court in a test case that could halt all Sunday trading at its souvenir and garden centres . |
| 9 | A Nottinghamshire miner 's daughter remembers being taken to the fair by a ninety-year-old great-grandfather , a very big man , bony man . |
| 10 | Just for a second she wondered if she was being taken for a complete fool . |
| 11 | Entries are still being taken for a Red Cross sponsored walk through Hamsterley Forest on April 12 . |
| 12 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 13 | Her mouth was being taken with a possessive intensity that obliterated thought and left only sensation . |
| 14 | Thereafter all rectal excisions have included the mesorectum , care being taken at the pelvic brim to identify and preserve the pelvic nerves and not to enter Dennonvilliers fascia during the anterior rectal dissection . |
| 15 | Early in November it called a second general strike to protest against the repressive measures being taken at the naval base of Kronstadt , in Poland , and elsewhere . |
| 16 | Once again advantage was being taken of the false building block principle which had been discovered for sulphanilamide ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | Many enclosures are particularly spacious and carefully landscaped — with full advantage being taken of the beautiful rural setting of the Bradwell Grove Estate as a backdrop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 21 | Failure to comply with the obligation ( which , in the case of blood , arises if the driver withholds consent to the specimen being taken by a medical practitioner : see section 11(4) ) constitutes an offence , subject always to the defence that the driver had a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ for the failure . |
| 22 | The 1978 Age Discrimination in Employment Act , which raised the minimum mandatory retirement age in the US from 65 to 70 , was followed by a fall in the average age of retirement , and the option to choose retirement before 65 at a reduced pension is being taken by an increasing number of American workers . |
| 23 | In 1987 , ICI dominated the market with a 50% market share , the remaining 30% being taken by the other three firms who are subsidiaries of state-owned European manufacturers that acquired capacity in the UK market over the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 24 | Fortunately , steps are being taken by the Indonesian wildlife department , assisted by the Worldwide Fund for Nature , to protect the remaining population and to increase it by artificial rearing . |
| 25 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 26 | None of the YCs had realized that the decision to rehouse the families was being taken by the Conservative council . |
| 27 | Mr Milne said his members were appalled at the stand being taken by the Grimsby-based Nation Federation of Fishermen 's Organisations . |
| 28 | The Polytechnic was beset with resource problems but the cause of the Visiting Party 's overriding concern was the poor quality of the leadership and the lack of initiative being taken by the Academic Board . |
| 29 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 30 | Even now trout are being taken from the upper layers of the water and on more than one evening fish have surprisingly been caught on dry flies . |