Example sentences of "have [be] taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Aitken has been taken off the back benches and made minister of state for defence , in the hope that he can continue to rally the Euro-sceptics as he did over Maastricht . |
| 2 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 3 | To comply with the IEE Wiring Regulations , an immersion heater must have its own electric circuit run from a spare fuseway at the consumer unit , though there are many houses where the supply for the immersion heater has been taken off the upstairs ring circuit . |
| 4 | £100,000 worth of equipment has been taken off the site . |
| 5 | It seems strange that you can defend your wicket with your bat , pads and any part of your body except your hand , if it has been taken off the bat . |
| 6 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 10 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 11 | The accused need not know that the owner does not consent or know that the conveyance has been taken without authority . |
| 12 | In the " allowing " form the accused must know that the conveyance has been taken without lawful authority . |
| 13 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 14 | Point Five has been taken as the benchmark ice gully climb , and would be graded V , 5 under the new system . |
| 15 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 19 | For concreteness , we focus on the corporation tax , which has been taken as the main application of the analysis . |
| 20 | It has been taken as a reassurance by the British textile industry . |
| 21 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 22 | Critics also argue that little account has been taken of changes already forced on commercial broadcasting before legislation . |
| 23 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 24 | No account has been taken of , amongst other things , the role of soil factors , of disturbance , or canopy density . ’ |
| 25 | In designing the course , full account has been taken of the need to provide students with the skills necessary not only to make a contribution to the current environment , but also to be sufficiently adaptable to the exciting future of the industry . |
| 26 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 27 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 28 | Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision . |
| 29 | Where account has been taken of factors other than the judicial view on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in fixing the date , the date will be adjusted to bring it into line with the judicial view . |
| 30 | Advantage has been taken of the option to combine certain headings on the face of the profit and loss account and the appropriate disclosure is included in the notes to the accounts . |