Example sentences of "taken [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This statement does not have to be taken as gospel to be of use . |
| 2 | The prohibition of usury in the Old Testament , therefore , should not be taken as criticism of a modern competitive capital market . |
| 3 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 4 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 5 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 6 | But in any case , her prominence in the preparations for the 5 October march , and her leading part in it , did not mean that she intended that it should lead to a violent outcome , and the mere fact of her CPNI membership can not be taken as evidence for the existence of a violent conspiracy . |
| 7 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 8 | Financial dependence was taken as evidence for agency status . |
| 9 | Can the perplexing unreliability of animal behaviour be taken as evidence for something more ( or perhaps less ) than machinery making decisions ? |
| 10 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 11 | As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 13 | Pearson 's enforced demotion within his own company , and the distaste shown by his partners for experiments that veered too sharply away from the comedies that had established Welsh-Pearson 's reputation , is generally taken as evidence of the conservatism inherent in the film industry . |
| 14 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 15 | Opinion polls are taken as evidence of electoral viability ; and winning elections — not lesbian and gay rights , or even socialism — is Labour 's primary purpose . |
| 16 | Forms of speech which had been labelled ‘ ungrammatical ’ , and taken as evidence of cognitive deprivation , are shown by Labov to be simply forms of dialect with no fundamental consequences for cognitive performance . |
| 17 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 18 | In the absence of any reliable direct measure variations were taken as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 19 | Conversely , when they discovered diachronism , all similarities in lithology tended to be taken as evidence of different ages . |
| 20 | Um around the middle years of the twentieth century there was ah a good deal of well people were spotting signs which would nowadays be taken as evidence of child sex abuse but they were giving other explanations for them . |
| 21 | The resounding election victory of 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin , a student member of PD who stood as an anti-Unionist candidate , in the Mid-Ulster by-election on 17 April , was taken as affirmation of the minority 's support for Civil Rights movement . |
| 22 | If you do not feel you want to do this it is a great pity but at least do not avoid having your photograph taken as part of the normal course of events ( at weddings , parties , social events ) . |
| 23 | The decision was taken as part of an initiative to cut funding of ‘ big ’ projects and put this money back into funding grants and studentships . |
| 24 | When it came to the special compulsory purchase hearings ( taken as part of the Hinkley C Inquiry ) , the Board also fell flat on its face . |
| 25 | However , it is not to be taken as part of the definition of a causal circumstance that it must include more than one element — more than one condition , event , individual property or whatever . |
| 26 | Because in most cases environmental specialists need to undertake statistical analysis of the information , samples are normally taken as part of a systematic programme of environmental sampling . |
| 27 | First , if the action must be taken very urgently , it can not be taken as part of a full corporate strategic analysis ; there would not be the time . |
| 28 | If the answer is yes , is that to be taken as part of Rudduck 's message which says that small scale studies are not trivial if they nevertheless provide excitement , confidence and insight ? |
| 29 | These will list each of the modules taken as part of a general SVQ , plus any extra modules they have achieved in addition . |
| 30 | Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the certificate programme except in exceptional cases . |