Example sentences of "[noun sg] taken for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I wanted to , and eh we had done my blood taken for all kinds of tests |
| 2 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 3 | They also complain about the shortage of wood brought about by iron smelting , and ask for opinions on that matter : " … also of any opinion conceived of the great consumpcon of timber and all other kinds of wood made in divers places thereabouts by the Iron Mynes " ( they must refer to wood taken for charcoal burning for the furnaces , the iron mines at this stage would not be using large amounts of timber , but the woodlands were decimated for this reason . |
| 4 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 5 | ‘ Race ’ and ethnic origin are also accepted labels , attached to pupils to describe who they are , their meaning taken for granted by politicians , administrators and teachers . |
| 6 | The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity . |
| 7 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 8 | Sacrifice taken for her , Nicandra knew , accepting it as a certainty of his love and care . |
| 9 | An expectation of life , as was pointed out in and nineteen seventy two one sixty five at eighty five to eighty six , is a matter of probability taken for actuarial purposes to be treated as a certainty . |
| 10 | No system which like the WGMS purports to secure PR by recourse to the election of additional members should have its viability taken for granted . |
| 11 | And in the MPA event , she also got a second place with a shot of copper piping taken for Hydro Polymers at Aycliffe . |
| 12 | The course would be a total entity in its own right , and not a subsidiary subject taken for one term by full-time students during the second year of a degree or graduate equivalent course in general musicianship . |
| 13 | From 1 September 1988 to 1 May 1991 , 194 consecutive patients were eligible for participation in the study and were invited to the outpatient clinic for an extra visit to answer a structured questionnaire and to have a cervical scrape taken for analysis for human papillomavirus . |
| 14 | It is of course taken for granted that the loading is such that always so that the response is given by equations ( 8.11 ) ( 8.13 ) . |
| 15 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 16 | Since this is an assumption taken for granted by a good deal of modern criticism , we should consider some of the objections that can be made against the New Critics ' arguments in its favour . |
| 17 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ The Princess Royal and Commander Laurence are having some pictures and film taken for themselves . |
| 18 | A recent study published by CPRE ( The Lost Land ) has revealed a massive under-estimation in the amount of land taken for development in England , in the Government 's official statistics . |
| 19 | In fact at present much land taken for chalk extraction is lost to agriculture permanently . |
| 20 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 21 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 22 | After Drew answered questions concisely on the time taken for the application and removal of make-up , a rather over-zealous coroner once more closed the proceedings . |
| 23 | As to the possibility of the crew shooting some extra footage whilst at the museum , I am afraid this would have to be dependent on the time taken for the shots we plan for use in our Project Video . |
| 24 | For the shadowed person the time taken for explanation may bring an awareness that some of their routines may be ready for review . |
| 25 | B the mean peeking rate and T the time taken for the cat to complete its final dash . |
| 26 | Interestingly , the larger the set of photos , then the longer the ‘ thinking ’ time taken for the animal 's response . |
| 27 | The passage of time taken for the paint to thicken might also be discussed . |
| 28 | It is the time taken for this to occur which tells you if the horse is dehydrated . |
| 29 | A better method is to measure the time taken for the full code to be read in . |
| 30 | The transit time — the time taken for the food we put into our mouths to pass along the whole of the intestinal tract until the residue is excreted as stools — has also been found to differ enormously between us and them . |