Example sentences of "could be taken [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This set of objects and events could be taken as a set of elements which would have to be included in a representation of this speaker 's topic , i.e. what he was talking about . |
| 2 | His prescription for success in the desert — ‘ Wave a Sherif in front of you like a banner and hide your own mind and person ’ — could be taken as a motto for Indirect Rule . |
| 3 | The previous sentence could be taken as a definition of the word ‘ reinforcing ’ . |
| 4 | Charlie 's crack could be taken as a compliment and as such , to the relief of George and Jack , Maurice took it . |
| 5 | The insurance valuation of the contents was probably lower than it should be in these days of rising prices , but if it could be taken as a guide and the amount split in two it might be regarded as fair . |
| 6 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 7 | ‘ Shake ’ could be taken as the fear the poet has for the ‘ cold ’ of oncoming death and ‘ ruined ’ illuminates the idea of deterioration . |
| 8 | The state of the weather on a particular day could be taken as an example . |
| 9 | Association with colleagues after working hours could be taken as an indication of the priority given to company matters but it may be reluctantly undertaken . |
| 10 | He hoped the facility could eventually become portable so it could be taken into the community and set up in village halls . |
| 11 | Aeration equipment was installed to serve six 200 tonne bins in order that new harvest grain could be taken into the warehouse and aerated if required . |
| 12 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 13 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 14 | In many parts of the Kandyan Kingdom both civil and criminal disputes could be taken to a gamsabhava , or village council which attempted to bring about an amicable settlement . |
| 15 | It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods . |
| 16 | The machine could either stand on the threshing floor of an orthodox flail-threshing barn , which provided shelter from the weather , or it could be taken to the ricks in the fields . |
| 17 | And interesting but only interesting novels could be taken to the post office for distribution to the armed forces . |
| 18 | T'zin stood by as two officers rolled Nogai in a blanket so that he could be taken down the street . |
| 19 | The Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate spelt out its wobbly rationale for taking no action in its 1981 Report , saying that its powers were ‘ intended to protect the population and environment of England and Wales ’ , so ‘ it is unlikely that action could be taken under the legislation solely to protect the environment of other countries . ’ |
| 20 | Unfortunately no excerpts could be taken from THE TIMES . |
| 21 | As part of the review , advice could be taken from the community health physician , the home economics adviser , a paediatrician , a senior officer of the LEA , local politicians and , most importantly , parents , children , lunch time supervisors and teachers . |
| 22 | No swans ' , cranes ' , or bitterns ' eggs could be taken from the fen . |
| 23 | It estimated the minke population in the Antarctic as around 750,000 , and suggested that up to 100,000 could be taken from the area over the next decade . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 25 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 26 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 27 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 28 | A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 29 | No action could be taken by the court against the M.P.s . |
| 30 | In a document aimed at strengthening CSCE institutions , Foreign Ministers agreed on Jan. 30 " that appropriate action could be taken by the Committee of Senior Officials ( CS0 ) in cases of clear and gross violations of CSCE commitments , without the consent of the state concerned , if necessary " [ see also p. 38366 ] . |