Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year an Act was passed declaring that from henceforth the boundaries of all the royal forests should be taken to extend no further than those ‘ commonly reputed , used or taken in the twentieth year of the reign of James I [ 1622–23 ] . |
| 2 | In the fight for Lemberg itself , the Austrians lost , at a conservative estimate , 130,000 killed , wounded or taken prisoner . |
| 3 | The French fared very badly , with some 7,000 men killed , wounded or taken prisoner . |
| 4 | These objectives have to be worked for ; success is neither universal nor taken for granted . |
| 5 | Like her fellow-suf-ferers , Claire has had physiotherapy to keep the lungs clear and taken expensive drugs to help digest high-calorie foods . |
| 6 | No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength . |
| 7 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 8 | Residents living in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate were warned that the pills could prove harmful if taken by children . |
| 9 | During the Second World War the house was empty until taken by an elderly lady , Mrs Fullerton , whose son was grown up . |
| 10 | The various parts of society are seen to be interrelated and taken together they form a complete system . |
| 11 | Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ‘ frozen ’ posture for as long as fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | Sgt Paul Robinson said : ‘ These are dangerous if taken by the wrong people . |
| 13 | Officers say some of the pills could prove dangerous if taken by children . |
| 14 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 15 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 16 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |
| 17 | Alcohol is particularly dangerous when taken with barbiturates or tranquillisers , causing deep sedation , a drop in blood pressure and possible breathing failure . |
| 18 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |
| 19 | ABA requires that these measurements be as objective as possible and taken before , during and after the intervention . |
| 20 | Attendance at meetings of the Family Fellowships , such as Al Anon or Families Anonymous , brings one among people who have had similar experiences and feelings and been equally confused , hurt , angry or depressed and taken similar actions out of confusion or despair . |
| 21 | Next morning he was found comatose and taken to hospital . |
| 22 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 23 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 24 | How our love-child , Robin , had been captured at sea by the Spanish and taken to Madrid . |
| 25 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |
| 26 | Buying each other drinks in this village was so natural and taken for granted that words of thanks were rarely uttered . |
| 27 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 28 | More than 300,000 French soldiers were killed , maimed or taken prisoner in this futile exercise . |
| 29 | Police warn that orange-coloured Bruofen tablets and Molipaxin tablets , coloured green and purple , lost in the Newport area of Middlesbrough are potentially lethal if taken without medical advice . |
| 30 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |