Example sentences of "to be taken for " in BNC.

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1 But the drugs that can reduce it have to be taken for life , and many have unpleasant side-effects .
2 ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped .
3 Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’
4 When the king commanded deer to be taken for his use in the royal forests it was usually the warden 's responsibility to see that this was done in the proper manner .
5 A stuck-up snob , hoping to be taken for a member of the ‘ upper class ’ having carefully studied Nancy Mitford 's Noblesse Oblige , will remain silent .
6 Joseph 's path , though , was not to be taken for him , and he prepared to travel to Lapwai .
7 Through them I first learned ( as Leslie learned in the army ) that bathrooms and books were not then things to be taken for granted — that reading was not an instinct like breathing and eating , but a skill sometimes painfully acquired .
8 If it is thought that there may be infection in the bladder ( cystitis ) or kidneys , a special sample needs to be taken for laboratory analysis .
9 But this is not a fact to be taken for granted .
10 That seemed to me to be taken for granted and perfectly possible .
11 This can have some side-effects , such as nausea and vomiting , but only has to be taken for about a week .
12 Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues .
13 A cat is less demanding ( it does not need to be taken for walks for a start ) and a fish even less so , ( although some expensive tropical fish need careful temperature control and special food ) .
14 This may be because low staff turnover creates less need for induction and job training and more need for development training or it may be that job training is more likely to be taken for granted .
15 I ai n't the sort to be taken for granted , and I sure as hell do n't want to be someone 's fancy woman . ’
16 The shrouds are shapeless , almost winding-sheets , and the creases too deliberately crisp to be taken for flannel .
17 So warped fantasies about being a big bad soldier start to be taken for real in some dark corner of my deluded male brain .
18 But I 'm not going to be taken for granted again .
19 Although Constance was proud to be seen with Nicky and loved it when he took her out , she was determined not to be taken for granted .
20 Mr Hamilton said : ‘ I am deeply concerned at what you have told me and I shall ask for immediate steps to be taken for normal decencies to be observed . ’
21 It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life .
22 It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss .
23 The goddess is still not to be taken for granted .
24 The purpose of the meeting is to discuss new change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each .
25 The purpose of the meeting is to discuss outstanding change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each change request .
26 Thus there is enormous difficulty both in defining precisely what we mean by expertise and in marking out what decisions will be considered to be taken for personal or other non-organizational ends .
27 Given the wide range in dates represented by the fragments ; the fact that no two have yet been found to fit together and vary considerably in size ; and the lack of any signs of wreckage ; the current hypothesis is that the statues were already broken when they were loaded into the transport ship to be taken for re-use elsewhere .
28 The Association for Stammerers would like to increase our understanding and patience of stammering in a world where fluency tends to be taken for granted .
29 HRT gives fast relief from the immediate symptoms — hot flashes and night sweats — but needs to be taken for at least two years to protect from the more serious long-term side-effects of the menopause : heart disease and the bone-thinning condition osteoporosis .
30 An important quantity associated by the mathematicians with the complex number z is its modulus , written unc and defined as unc I have explicitly indicated that the positive value is to be taken for the square root .
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