Example sentences of "taken [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The above figures are only estimates and should not be taken as firm indicators . |
| 2 | The above figures are only estimates and should not be taken as firm indicators . |
| 3 | These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units . |
| 4 | Remember that while we debated them both together , the vote will be taken as separate items . |
| 5 | Introductory astronomy courses can be taken as outside subjects for various honours degrees . |
| 6 | This capacity for choice , implicit rather than active in so many people , can in fact be taken as one criterion for human maturity . |
| 7 | Yet , in my opinion , the only two continuous accounts of the events — the First and Second Books of Maccabees — can not be taken as contemporary witnesses to the facts . |
| 8 | Municipal legal systems uniformly restrict the use of force , very markedly so in the case of the ordinary citizen , while the occurrence of riots and other manifestations of violence are taken as serious breakdowns of law . |
| 9 | It may be that the general class of adverbials which can appear initially in a sentence could be taken as possible markers of ‘ topic-shift ’ . |
| 10 | These can also be taken as individual units . |
| 11 | However , these should be taken as approximate estimates . |
| 12 | Evaporation is a relatively small loss in this country and may be taken as 0.05 inches per day . |
| 13 | They can hardly , therefore , be taken as satisfactory aids to assignment . |
| 14 | And this may be generalized , or taken as some kind of parable . |
| 15 | The fact that the Commission sat on its hands and did nothing during these events must be taken as some indication of the prevailing mood in Brussels . |
| 16 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 17 | It , of course , can not be taken as scientific fact . |
| 18 | Music that could never be taken as light entertainment . |
| 19 | They do not in themselves betoken infection , although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases . |
| 20 | Not only will such a division of labour approximately halve the size of the lexicon ( by accounting for different interpretations of words by a general external principle ) , it will also immeasurably simplify the logical base of semantics — the word some can be equated directly with the existential quantifier in predicate logic ( while the reading " some and not all " taken as basic leads to serious internal contradictions : see Horn , 1973 and Chapter 3 below ) . |
| 21 | Bile samples were taken during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) in 43 patients , percutaneous cholangiography in 15 , and both in four . |
| 22 | Procedures at the NHS trust were criticised during the hearing with tribunal chairman Richard Smith questioning why formal notes were not taken during disciplinary hearings . |
| 23 | Duodenal biopsy specimens were taken during diagnostic endoscopies with biopsy forceps for 13 untreated ( mucosa morphology grade III-IV , according to Scott and Losowsky ) and nine treated coeliac patients ( mucosa morphology grade I-II ) , and from nine patients investigated for epigastric pain ( normal villous structure ) . |
| 24 | Care must be taken during this process , firstly not to liberate the contaminants in gaseous form and so cause a repetition of the odour nuisance in a more concentrated form , and secondly , where steam is used , to minimise the quantity of liquid effluent formed by condensation , which will require disposal . |
| 25 | While at the Soane he edited and wrote a commentary on two small books in the museum , The Notebook and Account Book of Nicholas Stone , Master Mason to James I and Charles I ( Walpole Society , vol. vii , 1919 ) , which he illustrated with photographs of that sculptor 's monuments taken during numerous journeys devoted to studying Stone 's work . |
| 26 | The opportunity was taken during programmed maintenance and repair works to restore the appearance of the bridge , thereby enhancing its environs and creating a noticeable landmark to motorists and pedestrians passing under the bridge on route to the Capital 's city centre area . |
| 27 | Many archaeological sites are only known from old aerial photographs taken during military operations in the 1940s and 1950s : the sites themselves have since been destroyed . |
| 28 | On 11th February , in the second week of the new session of Parliament , Tite asked Hall what steps were being taken about new Government Offices . |
| 29 | And finally , as you will know , there is a new Criminal Justice Act which will be coming through , there are new steps that are going to be taken about juvenile offenders . |
| 30 | these people are key professionals who often influence the policy decisions made by locally elected members within the committee structure of local government , particularly when major decisions are taken about educational issues . |