Example sentences of "[noun] [being] taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAST week we protested about the 25-day Christmas break being taken by Members of Parliament . |
| 2 | Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the certificate programme except in exceptional cases . |
| 3 | Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the Diploma Programme except in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | Roach being taken from swims just above the by pass bridge . |
| 5 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Macmillan had no objection to experimental steps being taken in that direction . |
| 7 | These and other factors led to world-wide steps being taken in the 1970s to reduce the discharge of all mercury compounds to the aquatic environment . |
| 8 | Despite the equal opportunities policies of major broadcasters , there are no effective steps being taken by the industry to remedy this situation , nor possibly any significant recognition of a need to do so . |
| 9 | To date , however , this had not resulted in major practical steps being taken by companies , the survey showed . |
| 10 | There probably wo n't be any support for the rear and you might be worried about the weight being taken by the connector ; for vertically-mounted cards you 'll find that the AccuCard 's design puts its centre of gravity right over the connector , but horizontal mounting could be more troublesome . |
| 11 | Highways chiefs say there is no evidence to justify action being taken in Lily Road , Litherland . |
| 12 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |
| 13 | Masud Hoghughi , director of the Aycliffe centre and a strong critic of last year 's draft document , said the particular wording of the guidance was crucial because of the risk of legal action being taken against workers who exercise restraint . |
| 14 | As one of the terms of the settlement HarperCollins placed an announcement in Thorpe 's Weekly Book Newsletter advising that there is no question of legal action being taken against anyone who deals with Twin Books ' Van Gool 's Blinky Bill in Australia . |
| 15 | The inclusion of the ADM-19 , dominated by the former M-19 left-wing guerrillas who had demobilized in March 1990 , effectively removed the threat of legal action being taken against the M-19 leadership for their involvement in an attack on the Palace of Justice in November 1985 [ see p. 38907 ] . |
| 16 | Failure to do so may lead to disciplinary action being taken against the member in accordance with Bye-laws 56–71 . |
| 17 | The rejection of further talks means Apap now is bound officially to press ahead with industrial action , even though many of the union 's members already have supported the action being taken by others . |
| 18 | The aim is that these discussions will lead to action being taken by the newly formed Railway Clearing House which consists of members from both organisations . |
| 19 | Subsequent to this , as will be described in Chapter 9 , questions at last began to be asked as to whether there was not a direct conflict between AFHQ 's general policy , as confirmed in the Distone order , and the specific action being taken by 5 Corps at Eighth Army 's direction , in response to AFHQ 's order of 14 May . |
| 20 | The final meeting was broken up , however , and the OAS delegation forced to leave the country immediately , by soldiers who reportedly suspected that Cedras had agreed to Aristide 's conditional return ( the soldiers ' action being taken by US local officials as proof that rank-and-file soldiers , and not necessarily the army 's commanders , were preventing a political settlement — see below ) . |
| 21 | Please note that in the event of no action being taken within fourteen days of this date the documents concerned will be returned to source . |
| 22 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 23 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 24 | PPC : There 's no excuse for that kind of attitude being taken by any sales team . |
| 25 | The source also revealed the dim view of the sale plan being taken by the Museums and Galleries Commission . |
| 26 | This is really a differentiation within the category of sexual instincts as first conceived , the ego instincts of the first conceptualization being taken into a differentiation within the sexual instincts instead of being opposed to them . |
| 27 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 28 | Failure to comply with the obligation ( which , in the case of blood , arises if the driver withholds consent to the specimen being taken by a medical practitioner : see section 11(4) ) constitutes an offence , subject always to the defence that the driver had a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ for the failure . |
| 29 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 30 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |