Example sentences of "were taken [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Volunteers present at the two events were taken through a questionnaire on the day of the study , followed by a shorter questionnaire a week later ( by phone or post ) and four weeks later ( by post ) . |
2 | If donations were taken at a service , they were left at the door either on the way in or on the way out . |
3 | Three subjects were taken at A level and they were usually taken as packages of closely related studies : physics , chemistry , and mathematics ; French , German , and English ; history , geography , and economics . |
4 | With strangers the preliminaries were taken at a more gingerly pace . |
5 | The rest of us were taken at a more sedate pace for a check-up at the hospital . |
6 | Each field started with 95 cells and images were taken at a rate of 12 frames per hour . |
7 | The photographs were taken at a high water level . |
8 | She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive . |
9 | Thus the NEB 's reassurances were taken with a strong dose of salt . |
10 | Influenced by developments such as these , substantial public support began to develop for measures which would protect the position of the indigenous nationalities and which would ensure that economic decisions were taken with a greater degree of consideration for local circumstances . |
11 | General photographs ( ‘ body maps ’ ) were taken with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome colour slide film . |
12 | Transmission electron micrographs were taken with a Joel JEM100CX microscope at magnifications ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 . |
13 | The soldiers , carrying pistols and M-16 rifles , got into a pickup truck outside the hotel and were taken to a Salvadorean military installation . |
14 | All four were taken to a hotel to go through the agonising ordeal of kissing goodbye to the baby they had thought was theirs . |
15 | The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a hangar at Schiphol . |
16 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
17 | After a few days , we were taken to a camp for women and children north of Perpignan , where there was food and shelter , although not enough of either . |
18 | Next morning we were taken to a small village nearby , on a patch of dry ground in the middle of a bog , and on this uninviting spot the chief , an aged , autocratic savage called Afleodham , instructed us to camp . |
19 | Once at the Prince Albert Street police station , Amaranth and her escort were taken to a small , comfortably furnished room where they were interviewed by a woman detective . |
20 | They were taken to a room with walls of glass , overlooked by a central console with nurses in attendance . |
21 | Patricia Holding , from Durham County Council , told the court more than 30 drums of hazardous paint stripper were taken to a dump at Heighington Lane , Newton Aycliffe . |
22 | The others continued to Sydney , where they were taken to an internment camp at Hay , three miles up the railway on the Murrumbidgee river . |
23 | KIRSTY HAY and her Scottish junior champions were taken to an extra end by Manuella Kormann 's Swiss quartet at the world junior championships in Grindelwald yesterday . |
24 | After lectures from two British Airways pilots and a clinical psychologist , 80 people were taken for a short flight . |
25 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
26 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
27 | A black and white television and cash were taken during a burglary at a bedsit in Corporation Road on Saturday . |
28 | In 14 of the latter , the spaces between sections were too large or the thoracic examinations were taken without a lung window , and 3 non-seminoma patients had no thoracic diagnostic CT . |
29 | Broadly speaking the responses were taken as a reaffirmation of the existing partnership at two levels — between the Council and institutions , and between subject boards and academic staff : ‘ the mechanisms proposed in the paper for modifying the partnership had clearly been rejected ’ , but the rejection of the proposals did not mean that the matter could there rest . |
30 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |