Example sentences of "be taken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 2 | If they 're taken away I 'll be finished . |
| 3 | After that , you 're taken back upstairs , but to a different wing and a different room . |
| 4 | But that machine can be doing , say eight curtains , coming off a bottom roller , being woven over and onto another one , till they 're taken off . |
| 5 | ‘ The main difference between cricket and rugby now is that they 're both more competitive , which means they 're taken too seriously . |
| 6 | That 's the old seed they 're taken there |
| 7 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 8 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 9 | A decision will be taken shortly on whether to invest in a more advanced E-mail package and , if so , which one . |
| 10 | I have alerted the Director of Education to the likelihood that a decision on whether or not to take up the school site might need to be taken sooner than originally thought . |
| 11 | ‘ This is bad timing in the political season as emotions are running high and could be taken higher , ’ said President Aquino 's press secretary , Mr Horacio Paredes . |
| 12 | Written and oral components can be taken separately and each part confers its own certificate . |
| 13 | My Lord Mayor , I 'd like to move that on the standing order A seven small D the debates on the items leading to Community Health N H S Trust and Health Service 's application to become N H S Trust be combined in the interests of the efficient despatch of business at this meeting and that , in the usual way , they 'll both then be taken separately on each matter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Haemoglobin iron can be taken on its own or with desiccated liver . |
| 16 | The body may not always be accepted , but swift action must be taken on death to inform the authorities . |
| 17 | Most of Grampian 's sales staff will be taken on by TVMM , and the group expects to make savings through increased usage of resources such as research , computers and office space . |
| 18 | Some solid food will be taken on average from 6 months of age . |
| 19 | The commission hopes that peer-group pressure would persuade member states to comply with the council 's rulings on their budgetary plans , which would be taken on a majority vote . |
| 20 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 21 | Whether tax was covered by the review or not , there were still decisions to be taken on such fundamental issues as the future of the pensions system , support for low-income families , and the special payments system which was breaking down . |
| 22 | Whatever our misgivings about the story 's historicity ( and we make a grave and fundamental error if we think the value of a passage like this is measured by the extent of its historicity ) , and however confident we might be about its origins , it asks and surely deserves to be taken on the storyteller 's own terms . |
| 23 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 24 | If anyone slays Cain , vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold . ’ |
| 25 | In the morning you will be taken on a guided tour of the medieval city of Lucerne . |
| 26 | NB : Only one small piece of hand luggage may be taken on the aircraft . |
| 27 | While no confirmation has been found among records of Garrick 's career , it can be taken on Duncombe 's word that the actor prepared the proposals . |
| 28 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 29 | In early 1986 Norman still had those sickening chip-ins to come , but he was already gaining the reputation of being a great player who could not win a major championship — the mantle to be taken on , and shrugged off in time , by Curtis Strange . |
| 30 | Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation . |