Example sentences of "taken for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the uncompleted temple of Olympian Zeus was robbed of some columns , taken for the temple of Capitoline Jupiter at Rome . |
| 2 | Sometimes , the doppelganger appears to friends or relatives of the dying , and their mimicry is so convincing that they are usually taken for the person involved . |
| 3 | If he was taken for the army , the light in their house would be damped out forever . |
| 4 | Liability extends to damage caused in the United Kingdom , the cost of any measures reasonably taken for the purpose of preventing or reducing such damage , or damage caused by any measures so taken . |
| 5 | it may be flattering to be taken for the head of the firm if you are not , but it is not good business , and sound progress can not be made with anyone on a false footing , in fact , it must be obvious that the greater the respect you hold and encourage towards any of your seniors , the better the position they will be in to assist you in any difficulties which may arise . |
| 6 | B the mean peeking rate and T the time taken for the cat to complete its final dash . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 8 | Further , when a covenant is taken for the benefit of property , the doctrine does not apply , but when it is taken to protect both property and a business , or solely a business , the doctrine applies and therefore the question of reasonableness arises . |
| 9 | Instead , random samples , simple or stratified , are taken for the survey . |
| 10 | If the guarantee or deposit is wholly or partly forfeited , or taken for the payment of fines or costs , you must repay the corresponding amount to us without delay . |
| 11 | Under it , the member paid part of the debt and costs to be taken for the debt and costs in the action . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 13 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 14 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 15 | The time ( nominally 21 seconds ) taken for the voltage to reach a predetermined level is recorded by an on-chip 12-stage binary counter . |
| 16 | The alternative infra-red system uses a beam which is emitted from the camcorder and reflected back off the subject , the time taken for the reflection to return being measured and converted to a distance setting . |
| 17 | A collection totalling £375 was taken for the work of Christian Aid and CAFOD , and refreshments were served afterwards in the new parish hall . |
| 18 | Heat diffuses into the meat from the outside and the time , t , taken for the centre to reach a particular temperature depends on the smallest dimension , d , of the piece of meat ( in fact t d² ) . |
| 19 | Ticket bookings are already being taken for the charity concert night of fun and fundraising which will be staged at the King 's Hall , Stoke . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the larger the set of photos , then the longer the ‘ thinking ’ time taken for the animal 's response . |
| 21 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 22 | As the time taken for secreted enzyme to pass into the duodenum is relatively small ( three to four minutes ) , the delay period may be used as a measure of the time taken for the synthesis of new enzymes by the acinar cell . |
| 23 | At a time t after T1 is turned off the phase current is : The time ( t2 ) taken for the current to decay to zero is given by : Comparing Eqns . |
| 24 | Experience has shown that the 1110st suitable basis for comparison in this detection scheme is the current rise time ( the time taken for the current to rise from the lower to the upper limit of the chopping excursion ) , because this time is relatively immune to the influence of motional voltage , as illustrated by the Example at the end of this Section . |
| 25 | The operating speed of the teletype is limited by the time taken for the system to settle to within the required accuracy at each letter position . |
| 26 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 27 | The winners and their parents were going to have their pictures taken for the newspaper . |
| 28 | At turnoff estimate the time taken for the phase current to fall to zero and the proportion of the stored inductive energy returned to the supply . |
| 29 | In addition the time taken for the phase current to decay becomes important at high speeds , because the phase current continues flowing ( through the freewheeling diode ) beyond the excitation interval dictated by the drive transistor switch . |
| 30 | The beams of light from this lighthouse turn round completely once every few second The time taken for the beam to turn a full circle is different for every lighthouse . |