Example sentences of "taken [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF has therefore taken fright at the thought that with the economy still in recession , the Government 's tax revenues are at best static , while spending on unemployment benefit and income supplements are rising in line with the unemployment figures , and the deficit on the Chancellor 's own admission is set to reach £37 billion this financial year and £44 billion next . |
| 2 | Men had died because an untrained horse had taken fright at the sound of musketry . |
| 3 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 4 | In the case of the subject I shall henceforward designate as Subject A I found that the medial end of the clavicle had not yet fused , though fusion had taken place at the acromion and verical border scapula . |
| 5 | The incident is believed to have taken place at the home of Mr Dearlove 's estranged wife Janet . |
| 6 | Many visitors to Quainton Road expressed surprise at the amount of change that has taken place at the Centre over the last few years . |
| 7 | A similar rite seems to have taken place at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 8 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 9 | For most Whigs , it was axiomatic that resistance had taken place at the Revolution ; the logic of their position at Sacheverell 's trial rested on this basic belief . |
| 10 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 11 | Among the many meetings that took place that night , one of the most significant seems to have taken place at the house of a Foreign Office Minister , Tristan Garel-Jones . |
| 12 | In the UK , the Reed Exhibition Co Ltd has cancelled one of its biggest events , the PC-oriented Which Computer Show , which was to have taken place at the NEC , Birmingham this April . |
| 13 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 14 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 15 | The items showed that the burial had taken place at the period when the cremation of bodies and burial of the ashes in urns was practised . |
| 16 | A similar sequence of events bad taken place at the castle of Mauvezin in Bigorre and a charge that the lieutenant had far exceeded the limits of his jurisdiction was made . |
| 17 | But the wording of the ‘ appeal ’ couched the action solely in terms of justifiable retaliation for the ‘ campaign of agitation ’ and ‘ lies ’ in the foreign press allegedly initiated by Jewish emigrants , and the claim that ‘ hardly a hair had been touched ’ on Jewish heads in the course of the ‘ national revolution ’ was meant to suggest that the Party Leadership ( including Hitler ) was ignorant of the daily maltreatment of Jews which had taken place at the hands of the Party rank-and-file . |
| 18 | The alleged attacks were said to have taken place at the family 's home in Flint . |
| 19 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |
| 20 | A Home Office spokesman yesterday denied that any such incident involving Courtney had taken place at the prison . |
| 21 | With other members of the presbytery , the Reverend Brown was worried about what had taken place at the summer camp on Rousay in 1990 . |
| 22 | Glasgow had taken wings at the end of the 19th century . |
| 23 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 24 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 25 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |