Example sentences of "taken [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva said it had taken to wait a month to get in for a Saturday night . |
| 2 | The time taken to perform a search is not only influenced by the indexing language and system , however , but also by system response times , search strategies that are available and the style of the dialogue in a computer-based system . |
| 3 | Both Norman Tebbit and John Wakeham were now back after the Grand Hotel blast and the opportunity had been taken to arrange a Cabinet photograph . |
| 4 | Orbits in Schwarzschild space–time are of general interest , and so the opportunity will be taken to include a number of comments not directly relevant to the calculation of Mercury 's orbit . |
| 5 | There were no significant differences between the two groups in the time taken to establish a diagnosis , the mean duration of preoperative treatment , or the length of stay in hospital ( after allowance for the decline in average length of stay of all hospital patients between the two periods ) . |
| 6 | Thus , on their most probable readings , His cousin is pregnant , His cousin is n't pregnant and Is his cousin pregnant ? will all be taken to contain a reference to a female cousin ; and an addressee , on hearing Drink it ! , |
| 7 | He gave full instructions for the execution of various religious and charitable bequests , and in particular outlined the practical steps to be taken to found a school in Stockport . |
| 8 | In many applications the motor must be able to produce a large Pull-out torque over a wide range of stepping rates , so the time taken to position a load is minimised . |
| 9 | A large pit containing over 50 unbroken mid-Antonine samian vessels might well be taken to indicate a pottery shop nearby . |
| 10 | In contrast , deliberate reformulations are designed to achieve particular contextual effects , and they should not be taken to indicate a failure to communicate any more than , for example , repetition . |
| 11 | Measures of magnitude , duration , and extent of oesophageal distention — Occurrence of a pattern of intraoesophageal pressure oscillation identical to that of intragastric pressure during a common cavity episode was taken to indicate a period of communication between the lumina of the esophageal body and stomach . |
| 12 | In Bristol and Coventry three years prior to this , a decision had been taken to replace a batch personnel system with an on-line internally developed IMS package , covering recruitment , personnel administration/records , training and management information . |
| 13 | ( 6.9 ) , therefore the time taken to reach a stepping rate f is : So the speed increases linearly with time up to 100 steps 1 , which is attained after 21 ms . |
| 14 | ( 6.9 ) the time taken to reach a stepping rate in the range 100–435 steps is therefore : The velocity profile can be constructed by evaluating this expression for some sample values off : The complete profile for acceleration from rest is shown in Fig. 6.9 . |
| 15 | I do not follow how an order for the repayment of money to investors could ever be described as an order for a step to be taken to remedy a contravention of section 57 . |
| 16 | Thus , the time taken to identify a /t/ will be directly related to the time taken to identify the word in which it occurs ; and , as we have seen , this time depends on the word 's recognition point . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing in the provisions of this Article shall be taken to require a person to repeat any testing , examination or research which has been carried out otherwise than by him or at his instance , in so far as it is reasonable for him to rely on the results thereof for the purposes of those provisions . ’ |
| 18 | The successful transfer of such experience from teacher to pupil is taken to require a sense of a " community of interest " which " would be felt instinctively and immediately by the pupil " : |
| 19 | However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas . |
| 20 | The clumsiness is evident in the standard of ‘ the reasonable man ’ , an anthropomorphic ( and male ) standard which might be taken to suggest a paragon of virtue if it were not for the context of partially exculpating a killing by such a person . |
| 21 | Neighbourhood Watch The first step has been taken to form a neighbourhood watch in Foulis Crescent and it is hoped that Woodhall Avenue and Drive will set one in motion in the near future . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood Watch The first step has been taken to form a neighbourhood watch in Foulis Crescent and it is hoped that Woodhall Avenue and Drive will set one in motion in the near future . |
| 23 | The steps taken to field a team who would maintain the Premier Division side 's place at the top of Group A in the European Champions League were costly only in terms of the gamble that |
| 24 | The complexities of the law can add to the amount of time taken to resolve a case . |
| 25 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |
| 26 | Target dates and cut-off dates and review procedures can all be specified , but the time taken to solve a problem or make a break-through can not be predicted . |
| 27 | A COMPUTER system introduced by Japan 's Ministry of Health has cut the time taken to match a kidney donor with the most suitable recipient from several hours to three minutes . |
| 28 | Hence the time taken to recognise a string such as FONHGTAEW is much longer than that taken to recognise the arrangement FOG HAT NEW . |
| 29 | But perhaps the most valuable work achieved by CNES in the 1960s lay in co-ordinating the development of the French space industry : in 1964 the decision was taken to build a launch site at Kourou in French Guyana ; in November 1965 the Diamant A rocket was successfully launched from an Algerian site — the swansong of a military programme based in a former French territory . |
| 30 | Thus the time taken to unroll a carpet is very short compared with the time interval between the arrival of successive consignments . |