Example sentences of "be [be] take [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
| 2 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 3 | They 're being taken to court and made to pay . |
| 4 | Ironically , one casualty of failure to bring it into force would be the express attempt to limit action on the part of the Community through the concept of subsidiarity , even if in practical terms account already seems to be being taken of this concept . |
| 5 | A lot of them now are being took off A and E work , put on out-patients and most on it 's now the art of trust . |
| 6 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 7 | Although the procedure is quite slow and expensive , many more appeals are being taken to the courts on a variety of ingenious arguments , probably because the amount of money at stake can be very large , and because applicants do achieve a measure of success . |
| 8 | We are being taken to the ‘ limits of pain ’ brought on by a means of transport which is too loud , ugly , congested , dirty , dangerous and expensive . |
| 9 | TORY bosses are being taken to an industrial tribunal today — because they sacked their agent . |
| 10 | The clothes are being taken to Romania by an ex-trading standards officer . |
| 11 | How else could we have appreciated the dangers of ocean pollution , the extraordinary risks that are being taken with nuclear waste ? |
| 12 | All those factors are being taken on board . |
| 13 | Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate which has the responsibility of ensuring that best practicable means are being taken for preventing the escape of any noxious or offensive gas into the atmosphere , and for rendering such gases where discharged harmless and inoffensive . |
| 14 | It is a fact that whatever actions are being taken at any one time , the individuals concerned are rarely , if ever , aware of the effect they may be having on events and the conditions of life in the remote future . |
| 15 | Leading the discussion , Professor Aggrey Brown of the Caribbean Institute of Mass Communication in Jamaica , described initiatives that are being taken at various levels , ranging from governments to grassroot groups , to preserve and strengthen Caribbean culture and identity . |
| 16 | The simplest of these manual controls is the ‘ backlight ’ ( BLC ) button , by which the exposure can be increased by a fixed amount when shots are being taken under ‘ backlit ’ lighting conditions ( see page 25 ) . |
| 17 | Bedding and pillows are seized and photographs are being taken of the home . ’ |
| 18 | Aggression , sleeping rough , unstable sexual relationships , heavy drinking , fighting , loud and lewd behaviour , the actions that you see men performing every day on our city streets , can all go against women when decisions are being taken about where they should be sent . |
| 19 | All sectors of ownership are being taken into account : the State ; local authorities ; the church ( excluding the Vatican but including objects held in the churches and convents of the different religious orders ) ; and private individuals ( obviously only if the owners have let the State know what they possess ) . |
| 20 | Various factors likely to influence sentencing are being taken into consideration , apart from a person 's employment situation . |
| 21 | Bookings are being taken by the Chelms-ford and Essex Museum , Oaklands Park , telephone ( 0245 ) 281660 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It will be a vision of the minute-by-minute actions that are being taken by his team . |
| 24 | As more and more decisions are being taken by management at local level , we need to ensure our local representatives have the necessary skills to cope with the new macho management techniques . |
| 25 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 26 | Although this sounds as if it might be extremely uncomfortable , the cervix , like the vagina , is surprisingly poorly supplied with sensory nerve-endings , and a relaxed patient may be totally unaware that any samples are being taken from this site . |
| 27 | I fear you are being taken from you — |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rare sand lizards are being taken from Dorset heathlands and sold in the Midlands for hundreds of pounds … |
| 30 | About 336 million fewer journeys are being taken in Greater Manchester , West Midlands , Merseyside , South Yorkshire , Tyne and Wear , West Yorkshire and Strathclyde . |