Example sentences of "to [be] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Care has to be taken by a critic in any of these cases to describe works as definitely as possible . |
| 2 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 3 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 5 | The piece needs to be taken at a good pace and in high spirits . |
| 6 | Secondly , there is the problem of the Northern catholic community , which tends to be taken as a monolithic nationalist community . |
| 7 | There is a point in everyone 's life , he wrote , when all caution must , as they say , be thrown to the winds , all doubts stilled , when the most extreme risks have to be taken . |
| 8 | As data security is such a fundamental issue for all computer users , programs which enable back-ups to be taken are supplied with each PC . |
| 9 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 10 | In late November , bring the pots into a greenhouse or cool place to acclimatise , ready to be taken indoors . |
| 11 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 12 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 13 | There were some practical considerations to be taken into account before the work could actually commence however . |
| 14 | The guards are removed so great care has to be taken and hands kept well clear of the blade ( below left and right ) . |
| 15 | If someone dies in hospital , they may rest in the hospital mortuary , or the funeral director will arrange for the body to be taken to the chapel of rest . |
| 16 | Everyone has the right to a church funeral , and for the body to be taken to the church , but it is not necessary to have a service at a funeral whether it is a burial or a cremation . |
| 17 | The legal unit will keep groups informed as necessary , but we expect that no action will need to be taken by existing recognised groups in any case . |
| 18 | Amongst the performance criteria to be taken into account when deciding allocations will be councils ' willingness to involve the private sector in the management and maintenance of its housing stock , and the extent of tenant participation in the management of estates . |
| 19 | This is the very first idea to be taken into consideration when a choreographer starts to work with music . |
| 20 | There are other considerations to be taken into account when the ballet has a story . |
| 21 | It generates a lot of heat , so care needs to be taken positioning the fitting . |
| 22 | Care has to be taken to make sure no excessive currents can flow during these transients . |
| 23 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 24 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 25 | Sir : If Labour is to suggest the setting up of a specialist labour court ( 30 September ) , then such a momentous change in the industrial relations system deserves more discussion , and needs to be taken out of the hot-house of Labour Party conference politics . |
| 26 | But the drugs that can reduce it have to be taken for life , and many have unpleasant side-effects . |
| 27 | The NUM leader — vice-chairman of the constituency party — said any such decision would have to be taken by the Yorkshire area of the NUM . |
| 28 | Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well . |
| 29 | Mr Prescott 's demand for the tunnel to be taken into public ownership goes beyond existing Labour Party policy . |
| 30 | First , the work is dramaturgically polite ; it consults its audience too much to be taken seriously as drop-out theatre . |