Example sentences of "have be taken [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might imagine a single-seater plane crashing in the desert because the pilot has been taken ill and died . |
| 2 | A sentence such as John has been taken ill has a certain syntactic structure which remains unchanged in different communicative settings . |
| 3 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 4 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 5 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 6 | If we take the example of John has been taken ill ( as a statement of John 's state of health ) , the foundation-laying element would be John . |
| 7 | In John has been taken ill , the rheme is take + ill . |
| 8 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 9 | It seems that Lord Li 's general has been taken ill . ’ |
| 10 | France 's President Mitterrand , who recently underwent cancer surgery , has been taken ill at the summit . |
| 11 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 12 | Women who work in community are particularly at risk , housing wardens and particularly home care assistants , who work in some of the worst inner city areas are very often called out at night to attend someone who has been taken ill and yet no thought is given to the potential danger they could be facing in carrying out their job or what , to or what preventive measures can be taken . |
| 13 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 14 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
| 15 | Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation . |
| 16 | The fact that most of the codes and standards incorporated in VDU safety clauses seem frequently to have been taken wholesale from various union guidance documents , raises questions as to how meaningful the discussions on VDUs have been . |
| 17 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 18 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 19 | Deep Level , he found , entered the vein after 120 fathoms , and had been taken south-easterly 30 fathoms beyond the " old works " — and was yielding a little ore . |
| 20 | When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds . |
| 21 | Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed . |
| 22 | Built at the start of hostilities , facing the estuary , it was now used by playing children , courting couples , and the odd customers who , thanks to Knocker 's cider , had been taken short and decided not to risk trying to get home in time . |
| 23 | And whether anyone else had been taken ill . ’ |
| 24 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 25 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 26 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 27 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
| 28 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 29 | I asked , anxiously adding that his father had been taken ill . |
| 30 | She had been taken ill at the weekend and had had to stay behind in Liverpool . |