Example sentences of "was taken [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’ |
| 2 | Back at the workhouse , Oliver was taken to see the board . |
| 3 | I was taken to see the King , but had to wait for at least an hour while he struggled with a difficult mathematical question . |
| 4 | So he always remembers the time he went to this He 's no idea who 's funeral he was at but he just went along and then he was taken to see the family . |
| 5 | In each case the coefficient of diversification was taken to illustrate the effect of size on the reduction of non-market risk . |
| 6 | Formerly , the rule permitting recourse to earlier statutes was taken to allow the court to compare the wording of a consolidation Act with the Acts that it superseded , and to conclude that variation of wording indicated a change of meaning . |
| 7 | A detailed drug history was taken to confirm the type , dose , and duration of maintenance medication . |
| 8 | Two years later , under Reitern , the decision was taken to replace the vodka farm with an excise tax . |
| 9 | These , it said , should be made available as a matter of course unless a positive decision was taken to suppress the material . |
| 10 | The initial decision at congress to enter the formal political arena was taken to defend the trading interests of cooperation against incursions by the state , and when sponsored candidates were elected to parliament they tended to work within the brief by monitoring legislation . |
| 11 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 12 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 13 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 14 | However , when the threat abated in 1989 with a ceasefire in Angola , which saw Cuban forces retreating to Havana , and the end of the Cold War , the decision was taken to terminate the programme . |
| 15 | P ( ) was taken to equal the enrichment of a zero time sample of plasma proteins . |
| 16 | Care was taken to place the vial in the centre of the ‘ cavitation umbrella ’ of the Cup Horn . |
| 17 | This time a decision was taken to place the process at the beginning of the school year . |
| 18 | A decision was taken to deliver the child by Caesarean section . |
| 19 | Its origins go back to 1939 when , due to the clouds of War , a decision was taken to remove the majority of Army Ordnance stores from Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard to a new Army Depot to be built at Donnington in Shropshire . |
| 20 | A gun was pushed in his back and he was taken to meet the group 's leader . |
| 21 | One man he had assumed was Swedish revealed himself as Jim Taylor , despite his name a Welshman , and he was taken to meet the SIS chief of station Cyril Cheshire at the passport offices in Birger Jarlsgatan . |
| 22 | A score under five was taken to mean the patient could not apply drops correctly . |
| 23 | This was taken to mean the Argun , Amur and Ussuri rivers , although no details were given [ for previous rounds of border talks see pp. 35840 ; 36320 ] . |
| 24 | This plan gives the impression that Lothian 's transport specialists were uncertain whether to allow traffic to flow along George IV Bridge and its extensions , or not ; so the decision was taken to make the traffic flow more difficult and see what happened as a result . |
| 25 | However , this crossing is on a route from the town centre to housing areas and schools which is heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists , so the opportunity was taken to reconstruct the junction to meet the needs of soft traffic ( Figure 6.12 ) . |
| 26 | An immediate tactical decision was taken to send the Task Force to the South Atlantic . |
| 27 | 12 years later , in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster , the decision was taken to start the shut-down in 1995 . |
| 28 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
| 29 | No trouble was taken to keep the name from Richard 's ears , but in his new flush of confidence he paid no attention . |