Example sentences of "be take at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many decisions about the implementation , organisation and monitoring of the National Curriculum will have to be taken at school level and each of these could affect the ‘ ordinary teacher ’ . |
| 2 | For example , modules may be taken at school as an integral part of the curriculum , part-time at college , or on day-release from work . |
| 3 | You do n't take a water tablet tomorrow and then you start this Inavase stuff and the first dose should be taken at night because the main potential side effect with the very first tablet , and it 's the first tablet only , is your blood pressure can go Oh down a bit . |
| 4 | Vocational modules can be taken at home or abroad by both Scottish students and their European Community partners in an exchange project . |
| 5 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 6 | Facilities include 3 tennis courts ( payable locally ) , sunbathing lawns and a large terrace where light meals or snacks can be taken at lunchtime . |
| 7 | But he 'd be wise to leave the rest to be taken at leisure , and make positive use of his friends in the Lothians . |
| 8 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 9 | For example , if you use the words , ‘ I am resigning ’ , that unambiguous statement is likely to be taken at face value unless perhaps you are speaking in the heat of the moment or under duress . |
| 10 | To conclude our review of criminal statistics , it is clear that official statistics on crime , like most statistics , should not be taken at face value as ‘ facts ’ to be accepted uncritically . |
| 11 | But he is careful to stress that none of the ‘ evidence ’ produced during hypnosis can be taken at face value . |
| 12 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 13 | She told the Panel that the original allegations could not be taken at face value , and that children should n't be taken into care on the unchecked allegations of other children . |
| 14 | Nothing Serbia 's president , Slobodan Milosevic , does should be taken at face value . |
| 15 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 16 | All dates conforming to this chronology , which are invariably written in European numerals , can be taken at face value . |
| 17 | Indeed , it would bode ill for our political system if we mistrusted our state organisations , and if the courts approached the results of police investigations with the assumption that nothing can be taken at face value . |
| 18 | This gave Parliament still more control in that the comptroller 's report need no longer be taken at face value , but could be subjected to detailed investigation by the PAC . |
| 19 | ( The ILEA figure can not be taken at face value in its last , incomplete , year . |
| 20 | This should not be taken at face value ; our ‘ individuals ’ might better be thought of as neuter , reproducing themselves unaided . |
| 21 | It is not simply information to be taken at face value . |
| 22 | This kind of exercise can build up a certain caution in approaching a document , and a realisation that not everything is to be taken at face value . |
| 23 | It can be seen from this that the data can not always be taken at face value and that users need to be warned of these problems . |
| 24 | Now , however , consider what happens if we take pragmatics to be the study of the contribution of context to language understanding : suppose normally an aunt gives her nephew T , but on an occasion switches to V , then in order to predict the intended ironic or angry meaning , a pragmatic theory must have available the detailed recipe for usage that tells us that V is not the normal usage , and thus not to be taken at face value . |