Example sentences of "be take [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know we 're taking in some erm five hundred more council houses , and we know that the rents of those , as they come in , are considerably higher than those of our own , and the rent rise they will have to suffer will be very little in comparison with the one that the City Council is putting off . |
| 2 | As well as carrying food , the CARE airlifts , which will soon be taking in enough seeds and tools for 50,000 families so that people can begin to help themselves . |
| 3 | Care must be taken during this process , firstly not to liberate the contaminants in gaseous form and so cause a repetition of the odour nuisance in a more concentrated form , and secondly , where steam is used , to minimise the quantity of liquid effluent formed by condensation , which will require disposal . |
| 4 | Indeed the only additional effect of a child being a ward of court stems from its status as such and not from the inherent jurisdiction , for example a ward of court can not marry or leave the jurisdiction without the consent of the court and no ‘ important ’ or ‘ major ’ step in a ward 's life can be taken without that consent . |
| 5 | ( At the same time it must be admitted that no Secretary of State has ever said that he accepts one either , though his order to publish a report might be taken as such an admission . ) |
| 6 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 7 | The fact that the Commission sat on its hands and did nothing during these events must be taken as some indication of the prevailing mood in Brussels . |
| 8 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |
| 9 | A portable computer can be taken to any room to interrogate the lock and produce a list of the last 100 events at that particular lock-set . |
| 10 | Then , a few days later , after the pigeons have had time to rest , they may be taken to some other point , perhaps one hundred miles south this time , and they will repeat the trick . |
| 11 | A robust approach should be taken to these questions . |
| 12 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 13 | Two pence per half-year might be taken for each cart , and one halfpenny for each pack-horse . |
| 14 | The purpose of the meeting is to discuss new change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each . |
| 15 | The purpose of the meeting is to discuss outstanding change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each change request . |
| 16 | The public inquiry is expected to last a week , but a final decision wo n't be taken for several months . |
| 17 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 18 | No decision needs to be taken for some time on the location of the European central bank . |
| 19 | Delighted to be taken for another ride in another car , the little boy chuckled . |
| 20 | If you leave the field blank , no action will be taken for this module . |
| 21 | Peter Roebuck might not have looked 13 in 1969 , but then he could well be taken for less than his 36 years now . |
| 22 | Ginseng is another alternative , but it is expensive and should not be taken for more than a month , as doctors suspect it is harmful to those who have high blood pressure . |
| 23 | There is thus a proliferation of public examinations of a practical kind , any of which may be taken at the new schools , of which the GCSE seems to be only one , if it is to be taken at all . |
| 24 | Indeed , if the message of its architecture is to be taken at all at face value , it was a city in which the factions did not follow conventional lines at all . |
| 25 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 26 | To gain these advantages , a fresh look will need to be taken at all our storage risks to ensure that the system does give the required performance . |
| 27 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 28 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 29 | They hope that if they ignore the , the behaviour it will stop or they do n't believe their complaint will be taken seriously or that any action will be taken at all . |
| 30 | A decision tree illustrates the actions to be taken at each decision point . |