Example sentences of "[am/are] taken to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 2 | reasonable contributions you may make towards transport costs if you 're taken to or from the hospital by a local voluntary car scheme or similar arrangement |
| 3 | No , taken them , they 're taken to be professionals though are n't they ? |
| 4 | Much of this material — this archaic London , the Hawksmoor churches , their magical meaning , and the tramps who haunt them — comes from the striking poem Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair , where the churches are taken to be geometrically interrelated in the form of a pentacle , the sorcerer 's five-pointed star . |
| 5 | When the maltster is satisfied that germination has unlocked the rich natural sugars in the barley , the grains are taken to a kiln room where heat stops germination . |
| 6 | At its most ludicrous , this makes the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley suspect , or worse than suspect , simply because it alludes to Edmund Waller , whereas the okay authors from Waller 's period , among pedestrian readers of Eliot 's essays , are taken to be Donne and Marvell . |
| 7 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 8 | They are taken to the pond for a bath perhaps by one daughter-in-law , and she baths them all . |
| 9 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 10 | But for parents whose children are taken to non-Convention countries , there is no choice . |
| 11 | The habit of mind which opposes family and state , and which gives the family a special position in the organization of a polity , is not solely Libyan : strongly étatique societies have often tried to abolish or limit the institution of the family ; and the attempts by government to regulate family life by intervening to increase or to decrease births , by altering rules of inheritance , by inhibiting or encouraging kinship corporations , are so familiar that they are taken to be natural functions of the state . |
| 12 | From the sealed fused container located inside the house , ‘ tails ’ are taken to the consumer control switch , past a main fuse to the consumer 's distribution unit with 6 , 8 or 10 connecting points and fuses . |
| 13 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors in their report on the teaching of English published in 1987 were particularly concerned by the low standard of teaching for A level English : ‘ Teachers spend too much time scrutinizing past papers and then drilling students in what are taken to be the ‘ correct ’ answers . |
| 14 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |
| 15 | On the seismic data the Westphalian A and B units have the highest proportion of discontinuous ‘ strong-amplitude ’ events which are taken to be coal developments . |
| 16 | The two electromagnetic field components in the initial regions I , II and III are taken to be . |
| 17 | As a general guideline the following levels of attainment in BTEC National Diploma and Republic of Ireland Leaving Certificate at Higher level are taken to be equivalent to the ranges of ‘ A ’ level grades shown : |
| 18 | The four outcomes that can result are taken to be as labelled in the Box ( over page ) . |
| 19 | Unless steps are taken to ‘ eliminate it from the enquiry ’ — and that must mean a diagnostic diet — then there is no sound basis for saying that a patient 's symptoms are psychosomatic . |
| 20 | When the time comes for farrowing , the sow is moved into another narrow crate where she will suckle her piglets for three weeks before they are taken to be fattened for bacon and pork . |
| 21 | The next morning participants are taken to the marina , introduced to their skippers , given a safety briefing , and taken through the basics of sailing . |
| 22 | In general , if w k is the weight ascribed to the kth objective and the constraints are taken to be inequalities , we are faced with solving the problem |
| 23 | Rachel Brown is just one of an increasing number of users who are taken to hospital suffering dehydration , exhaustion and heart and mental problems . |
| 24 | Swords , spears and shields are taken to be weapons of warfare , defensive and offensive , and there is nothing to suggest that they were used in any way other than conventional modes ( Alcock 1978 ; Davidson 1962 ; Swanton 1973 ) . |
| 25 | More than 100 people a week are taken to hospital after hurting themselves on supermarket trolleys . |
| 26 | A lot of the casualties are taken to Furness General Hospital , which is where I work as a consultant surgeon . |
| 27 | Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place . |
| 28 | A crucial Keynesian assumption is that if holders of speculative money balances decide to hold their wealth in some other form , they are likely to purchase financial assets since these are taken to be closer substitutes for money than other types of assets . |
| 29 | It is a commentary upon the action on that occasion , dealing with the problem of how it should be interpreted , speculating on the motives , intentions and characters of those involved , and generally offering some kind of criticism and justification of whatever are taken to be the goings-on . |
| 30 | In that story women are taken to a castle , where they are abused and tormented by men . |