Example sentences of "to [be] take [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The casualty was not found to be taking in water , but the rudder was jammed to starboard . |
| 2 | This would allow 2 x 2 weeks holidays to be taken per year for ( 1 ) plus 1 x 1 weeks holiday to be taken per year for ( 2 ) . |
| 3 | This would allow 2 x 2 weeks holidays to be taken per year for ( 1 ) plus 1 x 1 weeks holiday to be taken per year for ( 2 ) . |
| 4 | Conversely , when they discovered diachronism , all similarities in lithology tended to be taken as evidence of different ages . |
| 5 | This statement does not have to be taken as gospel to be of use . |
| 6 | However , it is not to be taken as part of the definition of a causal circumstance that it must include more than one element — more than one condition , event , individual property or whatever . |
| 7 | If the answer is yes , is that to be taken as part of Rudduck 's message which says that small scale studies are not trivial if they nevertheless provide excitement , confidence and insight ? |
| 8 | It feeds on a wide variety of fish — 43 different species are known to be taken as prey . |
| 9 | The main plank of Leninism is an organisational structure which will allow the best arguments in society to be aired and the argument that has most support to be taken as policy . |
| 10 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 11 | In making an apology one accepts blame for what has happened , but at the same time one tries to convince the injured party if there happens to be one , or the world at large if not , that the error is not to be taken as representative of the real self . |
| 12 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 13 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 14 | Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) . |
| 15 | I would like him to be taken to court ; where the Jury , |
| 16 | more likely to be taken to court and , in some cases to prison , once they have broken the law ; and |
| 17 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 18 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 19 | She said that the pain was a little better after the pethidine she had been given and she was able to rest quietly while she waited to be taken to theatre . |
| 20 | I refused to be taken to school , but every morning before I left , the other wives would come and put make-up all over my face – – bright red lipstick and things . |
| 21 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 22 | She had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 23 | She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 24 | She had to be taken to hospital and has since recovered . |
| 25 | In the struggle one officer smashed his head on a bench and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 26 | WOMAN soccer ref Marilyn Kelly , 47 , had to be taken to hospital after a fan head-butted her . |
| 27 | An unprecedented hunger strike took place in Tbilisi , the republican capital , in an attempt to block the changes ; more than a hundred of the demonstrators had to be taken to hospital . |
| 28 | He said he would make arrangements for Mrs Bean to be taken to hospital , but that he would prefer to talk to her son first . |
| 29 | Hurieh El Darrawish , pregnant and suffering from renal colic and anaemia , was threatened with rape and beaten until she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 30 | When the angina patient seemed to be stable he too was transported to an ambulance to be taken to hospital so that he could rest and fully recover from his attack . |