Example sentences of "be taken for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’ |
| 2 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 3 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 4 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 5 | If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought . |
| 6 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 9 | The main road from Oxford to Bicester ( A43 ) runs dead straight for several miles and might well be taken for a fine piece of Roman road . |
| 10 | I did not own such a garment ; I had stopped wearing shorts when I left school , determined never again to be taken for a ‘ lad ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm about as much on my own here as a man with a dog that wants to be taken for a walk . |
| 12 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 13 | NSAIDs had to be taken for a minimum of four weeks before endoscopy . |
| 14 | He had already accepted the need for reunion of churches in South India and agreed with Archbishop Michael Ramsey 's view that risks should be taken for the sake of Gospel . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds . |
| 17 | Orders will be taken for the new series of chips from June this year . |
| 18 | Security measures should be taken for the safe custody of confidential and important files ; therefore , cabinets should have locks , with the keys kept by a responsible official . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Under it , the member paid part of the debt and costs to be taken for the debt and costs in the action . |
| 21 | Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments . |
| 22 | it may be flattering to be taken for the head of the firm if you are not , but it is not good business , and sound progress can not be made with anyone on a false footing , in fact , it must be obvious that the greater the respect you hold and encourage towards any of your seniors , the better the position they will be in to assist you in any difficulties which may arise . |
| 23 | Reasonable care must be taken for the employee 's safety ( Latimer v AEC [ 1953 ] AC 643 . |
| 24 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 25 | One afternoon they will be taken for an easy mountain ramble and on another they are taken by horse drawn carriage into the woods where they can barbecue sausages ( a small charge is made for the barbecue ) . |
| 26 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't like to be taken for an idiot . |
| 28 | Reed was built on an overgenerous scale , bull-necked and bulging in his grey pinstripe ; Wycliffe , slight of build , and rather pale , was more likely to be taken for an academic than a policeman ; hard to believe that he had served a tough apprenticeship on the beat in a Midland city . |