Example sentences of "taken by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious example of such a sanction , of course , is the action taken by a state against those who break its laws . |
| 2 | Measures taken by a state in order to ensure that ships flying its flag had a genuine link with it did not by any means need to contain nationality requirements such as those in section 14 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 3 | When an American rang the busy news-desk of City Radio 's ‘ Good Morning ’ show , the call was taken by a girl trainee who later tearfully admitted she had not thought to query the claim that the speaker was the Press Counsellor from the American embassy with a genuine news-bulletin . |
| 4 | The amazing picture was taken by a Mirror reader seconds before the plane crashed . |
| 5 | And there had been the journalism course at secretarial college , taken by a reporter from the evening paper . |
| 6 | Her eggs all taken by a hedgehog ! |
| 7 | In actions which demand the character of ordination and in which Christ himself , the author of the covenant , the bridegroom and head of the church , is represented , exercising his ministry of salvation — which is in the highest degree the case of the Eucharist — his role ( this is the original sense of the work persona ) must be taken by a man ’ ( Inter Insignores art.5 ) . |
| 8 | A woman 's decision to become a political activist implies a much longer and more difficult process than that taken by a man . |
| 9 | In particular Lagrange showed cause for finding the number of formally distinct " values " taken by a function , for example xy + zt , on permuting the symbols x , y , z , t , in all possible ways . |
| 10 | The snapshot of the lifestyles of the province 's youngsters was taken by a survey for The Early Times newspaper , involving 200,000 young readers with an average age of 13 nationwide . |
| 11 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 12 | they are apt to be too large for constructive action , since the time taken by a committee to resolve a problem tends to be in direct proportion to its size ; |
| 13 | They 'll be taken by a convoy of local lorry drivers in March . |
| 14 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 15 | It is not proposed that anyone , taken by a whim , should be able to cash in part of the value of either of these two benefits . |
| 16 | Lessons are taken by a black costumed Mrs Lesley Hayman , the education authority 's living history projects teacher , who poses as the stern ‘ Miss Bracegirdle ’ . |
| 17 | But besides unintentional incorrect reporting in newspapers there is also the problem of bias , much of which may emanate from the political stance taken by a newspaper in an uncensored society . |
| 18 | They said that the incident had taken place in Belfast and that the photograph had been taken by a night camera . |
| 19 | He watched a film taken by a fifteen-year-old-boy later , at home in Salzburg . |
| 20 | The other seat was taken by a member of the Revolutionary Front of the Left ( FRI ) . |
| 21 | The decision in In re A Company shows that Parliament can by the use of appropriate language provide that a decision on a question of law whether taken by a judge or by some other form of tribunal shall be considered as final and not be subject to challenge either by way of appeal or judicial review . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 23 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 24 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 25 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 26 | A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 27 | Is it then irrational for the Secretary of State , by devolution , to allow such decisions to be taken by a minister of state or Parliamentary under-secretary of state ? |
| 28 | Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company . |
| 29 | In Ceram and Borneo , when a villager is taken by a crocodile , there are shamans who specialize in possession by the apologetic spirit of a crocodile god , who leads the community to the guilty beast . |
| 30 | The decision , taken by a sub-committee has yet to be ratified by the full council but would affect hunts such as the Grafton , Pytchley , and Bicester with Whaddon Chase . |