Example sentences of "been taken [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been taken through a number of English and Australian authorities , but none I think are determinative of the Secretary of State 's position . |
| 2 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 3 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 4 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 5 | The bidder 's estimate is that at least £31million of the property profit has been taken above the line , and Kingfisher also questions whether Dixons made any profit at all in 1988-89 from selling electrical goods in the UK . |
| 6 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 7 | At that time the buyers still had some of the foil which had not yet been taken into the manufacturing process ( i.e. unmixed foil ) . |
| 8 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 9 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
| 10 | Sad to report , then , that they have been taken into the studio with this album and produced . |
| 11 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
| 12 | And it 's precisely because Hetfield 's gobbing has been taken into the equation , along with every other possible eventuality , that makes the truth of Metallica 's latest swagger towards that Biggest Band In The Known Universe mantle all the more remarkable : for this is fabulous , vital entertainment , far more than stage-managed hyperdrome extravaganzas ever deserve to be . |
| 13 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 14 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 15 | It has been taken as a reassurance by the British textile industry . |
| 16 | It had not been taken as a result of the breakdown in 1946 of Anglo-American atomic cooperation . |
| 17 | Now , as the thought came into his mind he spoke it aloud , and had he spoken like this to anyone else it would have been taken as an insult , for what he said was , ‘ It 's a pity you have n't had education , Mick . ’ |
| 18 | In a variety of ways these rights were re-interpreted from the later 1940s and this has been taken as an indication that ‘ duty ’ remains the norm as ‘ Japanese business has still not accepted a union 's right to speak for its members ’ ( Halliday 1975 p.221 ) . |
| 19 | This is the first ever attempt to reassemble those pictures which Monet painted and exhibited in series , and which have been taken as the epitome of his desire for ‘ instaneity ’ . |
| 20 | Just as The Waste Land had once been taken as the expression of a " disillusioned " generation , in spite of Eliot 's disavowals of any such intention , so " East Coker " seemed to be an expression of historical continuity at a time when it was most threatened : the retreat from France in May of that year aroused fears of a German invasion of England itself . |
| 21 | Built by Justinian as the centre of Christian worship , this miraculous embodiment of space had been converted by the victorious Turks , with only minor modifications , into their foremost mosque and had been taken as the prototype for others which they built . |
| 22 | Point Five has been taken as the benchmark ice gully climb , and would be graded V , 5 under the new system . |
| 23 | The total carbon content has , therefore , been taken as the carbon content and quoted as a percentage weight . |
| 24 | Given that so many swords and fittings were being offered in a session which might have stretched trade and private interest , a reasonable approach seems to have been taken towards the reserves . |
| 25 | The only movement in UK law towards this concept is that companies with 250 or more employees are obliged to state in their directors ' report what action has been taken during the year on employee consultation and participation . |
| 26 | Eamonn Dalton , Chief City Engineer , ‘ said it could be argued that the Ovens claim was not based on objective evidence in that the samples said to have been taken at the dump had been handled , transmitted and analysed in all cases presumably by people with a particular interest in one aspect of the case . |
| 27 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 28 | As now , the decision who will proceed to A level , and thence to higher education will in effect have been taken at the end of the third year . |
| 29 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 30 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |