Example sentences of "been taken [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling , if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory , but that he was ‘ obviously disturbed ’ if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws . |
| 3 | For concreteness , we focus on the corporation tax , which has been taken as the main application of the analysis . |
| 4 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 5 | One large group of negatives had apparently been taken at a fancy dress party organised by the Duke of Devonshire — over 100 guests had been photographed , most of them with different background settings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |
| 8 | A fifteen-year-old boy , the oldest of the nine , had been taken to a secure unit . |
| 9 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 10 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Close account has also been taken of a Scottish Office Education Department report , Core skills by design , and of work in the rest of the UK . |
| 13 | Although Read 's will was far more detailed than Sir Edmond 's , the circumstances surrounding its execution are rather more obscure ; certainly little notice appears to have been taken of the complicated procedure for appointment . |
| 14 | ‘ Every step in my plan has been taken with the Divine help ’ |
| 15 | The cereals grown would have been taken down the long lane to the water mill to be ground for flour , whilst vegetables , poultry and perhaps pigs would have been raised in the crofts behind each farmstead in the village street . |
| 16 | When the weaving yarn has been taken across the complete row , push it back until it is just in front of the sinkers and knit the row . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 19 | Bowen C.J. held that the listing decision had not been taken under the treaty-making power , and that the Cabinet was not acting under any internationally binding obligation . |
| 20 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 21 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 22 | Wall cavity insulation can also reduce heat loss and could be considered , but only after expert advice has first been taken from an independent builder or surveyor as to the suitability for the type of home occupied by your elderly parent . |
| 23 | Access to Cultins Road had previously been taken from the small roundabout immediately east of the Union Canal . |
| 24 | The stone is thought to have originally been taken from the sacred island of Iona to the island of North Rona where it formed part of the church altar . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Stocks of exclusive children 's fashions have been taken from the Wobbly Jelly store in Oxford . |
| 27 | The phrase has been taken from the acratic discourse of medicine and literalized , universalized as an encratic discourse or system of belief . |
| 28 | This has now been taken by a full scale ‘ mock-up ’ nose cone of a Trans-Manche Super Train ( TMST ) . |
| 29 | Apparently , she had been taken by an Ixmaritian academy as part of a tax levied against her family , whose crops had suffered a blight one year and who were in severe financial hardship . |
| 30 | 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 . |