Example sentences of "be the [noun] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not been the view taken by the Roman lawyers in other European countries . |
| 2 | The two quantities are the time taken for the waves to reach a patch and return to the Earth , which gives the range of the patches , and the Doppler-shift of such waves , which gives the motion of the patches . |
| 3 | If there has been any injustice , surely it should be the adults taken away and not the children . |
| 4 | Another factor may be the time taken in coping with a particular old person which is seen as disproportionate in relation to other work which has to be done . |
| 5 | As in any full-blown controversy , these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight . |
| 6 | Less forgivable is the attitude taken by some museums who are frightened of the consequences of having their collection screened . |
| 7 | This is the issue taken up by Benveniste in Chapter 11 . |
| 8 | The latter is the approach taken by the Institute . |
| 9 | This is the approach taken in Thru where ‘ concrete prose ’ is used to exploit the possibilities of the printed word , creating a text that is ‘ unspeakable ’ by virtue of the fact that it relies on visual as well as auditory performance . |
| 10 | Far preferable is the approach taken in Victoria , Australia , where incest now covers the introduction of the penis into the vagina , anus or mouth of another person and the introduction of an object into the vagina or anus . |
| 11 | That is the position taken by the airline . |
| 12 | This is the position taken by Acker ( 1984b ) and by Rich ( 1979a ) who argues that the university is ‘ a system that prepares men to take up roles of power in a man-centred society ’ . |
| 13 | The striking feature , as in the United States , is how similar is the share taken by taxes across the income range . |
| 14 | For example : is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine 's Apollo ? |
| 15 | Another example which serves to illustrate this view of citizenship as apolitical is the decision taken by a Conservative-controlled local authority , Barnet , in 1987 to refuse to allow political groups such as CND or Amnesty International to take part in a community festival ( the Court of Appeal found that this decision was unlawful and struck it down , too late to save the festival ) . |
| 16 | Nowadays the motorway tunnel , which also runs from Goschenen through the Gotthard massif into canton Ticino , is the route taken by the overwhelming majority of motorists in summer as well as in winter . |
| 17 | The marginal rate of income tax is the percentage taken by the government of the last pound that an individual earns . |
| 18 | It may be defined as a constitutive process for the development of some subject in and through the medium of culture , which is the form taken by all social productions . |
| 19 | For Klein , the equivalent of the central place of symbolism in Piagetian analysis is the concept or phantasy , which is the form taken by all the mechanisms so far described . |
| 20 | The most obvious example of such a sanction , of course , is the action taken by a state against those who break its laws . |
| 21 | One of the most remarkable of the Mass Observation 's files is the report taken in September 1940 ( Report 247 ) . |
| 22 | What makes the work scientific is the care taken to avoid error , to be thorough and exhaustive , and to check and recheck all findings . |
| 23 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 24 | This , for instance , is the stance taken by Shipman ( 1979 ) in the book he entitles In-School Evaluation . |
| 25 | Original gravity ( OG ) is not strictly an indication of strength but is the measurement taken by excise officers at the start of the fermentation process to see how much sugar is present in the brew . |
| 26 | The basis is the plc taken as a paradigm in the previous section . |
| 27 | It is the time taken for this to occur which tells you if the horse is dehydrated . |
| 28 | What neither the historian nor archaeologist can reconstruct is the time taken for the two cultures to mingle , with intermarriage and innovations in the languages . |
| 29 | The second is the time taken from the moment a record is requested by the program to the time when accessing and transfer takes place , known as wait time or queue time . |
| 30 | But the major obstacle to wider use of computers for textual processing is the time taken to input data . |