Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 3 | Residents living in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate were warned that the pills could prove harmful if taken by children . |
| 4 | During the Second World War the house was empty until taken by an elderly lady , Mrs Fullerton , whose son was grown up . |
| 5 | Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ‘ frozen ’ posture for as long as fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | Sgt Paul Robinson said : ‘ These are dangerous if taken by the wrong people . |
| 7 | Officers say some of the pills could prove dangerous if taken by children . |
| 8 | Alcohol is particularly dangerous when taken with barbiturates or tranquillisers , causing deep sedation , a drop in blood pressure and possible breathing failure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it is not usually effective if taken long-term . |
| 11 | Physical exercise is most effective if taken " little and often " , avoiding strain and fatigue ( although recently more active hobbies such as jogging and aerobics have become popular ] . |
| 12 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 13 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 14 | Would the amount which would be given to ailing industries be more than taken away from healthy ones ? |
| 15 | These two definitions are tautologous when taken together : a computer-generated work is one created in circumstances such that there is no human author but if we attribute authorship to a human it can not be computer-generated . |
| 16 | If the patient is shocked post-operatively , peripheral constriction makes the skin feel cold to the touch and the temperature recorded in the axilla may not represent the core temperature — post-operative recordings are more accurate if taken in the mouth . |
| 17 | Curare is inactive when taken into the body by mouth ( which is why it is a good arrow poison for hunting game : any poison in the meat of the paralysed animal is not absorbed and does no harm to the eater ) . |
| 18 | Some dogs may become over excited when taken out in the car , associating this with walks . |
| 19 | The Red Queen label is amusing , but it can be misleading if taken ( as it sometimes is ) to mean something mathematically precise , literally zero relative progress . |
| 20 | The poison was described as virtually harmless when taken in small amounts . |
| 21 | The views are more plausible when taken as answers , or at any rate materials for answers , to a question quite different from the question of meaning . |
| 22 | They are more plausible when taken as responses to a question about dependent conditionals which in fact has more claim to be regarded as the principal one . |
| 23 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |