Example sentences of "[vb past] be taken [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 2 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 3 | Replying to a protest by the UK Labour Party , which described the ban on Vietnam as " a ridiculous embargo " , a UK Foreign Office spokesman said that only one former communist country — the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) — had been taken off the banned list , after unification with the Federal Republic of Germany ( FDR ) on Oct. 3 [ see pp. 37761-63 ] . |
| 4 | So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 6 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 7 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 8 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 9 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 10 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 11 | The photograph had been taken in the late twenties , seventeen or eighteen years before . |
| 12 | Menem , who later claimed that his action had been taken in the long-term interests of national unity and reconciliation , was immediately accused of double standards in releasing the former officers when he was simultaneously demanding the severest penalties for those involved in the latest rebellion . |
| 13 | A photograph of an older daughter of the family , then a student , had been taken in the small conservatory that leads into the house . |
| 14 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 15 | There were indications that some articles had been taken from the Soviet Union 's constitution but there was little evidence of other constitutions having been consulted except , curiously , for the Meiji constitution in Japan . |
| 16 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 17 | Cheshire Fire Brigade who set up an emergency operation centre on site said the cloud had been taken by the prevailing wind east of Northwich . |
| 18 | Distraught with grief and shock , rejected by her own mother and father , Melissa had been taken by the warm-hearted Craigs into their own home ; the small matter of illegitimacy had been discreetly dealt with by a statutory change of name and a wedding-ring , and the bereaved parents had found consolation for the loss of their only child in caring for his son . |
| 19 | In 1984 , when his successful playing career still had a few years to run , and his gambler 's mantle had been taken by the rugged striker Alan Brazil , Macari moved into management with Swindon Town . |