Example sentences of "taken at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six patients , all with malignant strictures , had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography . |
| 2 | Close-ups of atypical naevi were taken at approximately actual size with an adjacent 1 cm scale . |
| 3 | As the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one can vary during the day and acute increases have been found , a better correlation may have been obtained if a serum sample had been taken at more than one occasion from each patient . |
| 4 | The pressure is on him because Britain has taken at least one world title in the women 's event since the competition began in 1980 . |
| 5 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 6 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 7 | Each member of the family had his or her picture taken at least once : there , recorded for posterity , is father Benjamin , leaning back comfortably in a chair just as he had done when sitting for Mr. Adkin all those years before , still wearing his favourite ring on the little finger of his right hand . |
| 8 | Patients were recruited in hospitals and blood samples taken at least 3 months and at most 9 months after their MI . |
| 9 | Before that , because change by definition is something no one has seen yet ( despite models that may exist elsewhere ) , it has to be taken at least partially on faith . |
| 10 | He seems to have taken at least nine apprentices , the last in November 1622 ; one , bound in 1610 , was John Shakespeare , son of a Warwick butcher . |
| 11 | Whether the end result will lead to better governmental accounting is impossible to say , but it seems clear that major steps are being taken and will continue to be taken at least to understand the commonalities and differences between accounting for businesses and accounting for governmental units . |
| 12 | Faye would have taken at least half an hour . ’ |
| 13 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |
| 14 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 15 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 16 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 17 | The tissue studied was taken at least 5 cm distant from any macroscopic disease . |
| 18 | power considerations will usually give way to efficiency — at least in profit-making enterprises , if observations are taken at sufficiently long intervals [ … |
| 19 | The principle of subsidiarity , whereby decisions were taken at as low a level as was feasible , was stressed . |
| 20 | Listening to these performances , often taken at relatively modest speeds ( eg. the D major and G major Fugues , Book One , the thought that too much velocity and technical facility can be harmful comes to mind . |
| 21 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 22 | In this respect the cinematic sign differs radically from the language of literature , where images are less likely to be taken at only the literal level . |
| 23 | This gives an opportunity for action to be taken at once and for things to be put right without delay . |
| 24 | He demanded action be taken at once . |
| 25 | When she had finished , she did not even read it through , but thrust it into an envelope , rang furiously for Lyddy and demanded that the letter be taken at once to Trelorne . |
| 26 | Something like a worm is often taken at once even if groundbaiting has not been carried out beforehand . |
| 27 | When they arrived they were taken at once to a private alcove . |