Example sentences of "[noun] is taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 2 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 3 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 4 | The following entry is taken at random , but illustrates this well . |
| 5 | Where stock is taken in lieu of cash dividends it is in practice treated as a simple bonus issue and no Case V liability is considered to arise . |
| 6 | An example of environmental modelling and prediction where the interactions between different processes and dynamic feedback is taken into account is given by Haber and Schaller ( 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Overall negative feedback is taken from the junction of resistors R5/R6 to IC1 's inverting input ( pin 2 ) , via resistor R2 . |
| 8 | The course is of three years ' duration ( or four years if Geography is taken as a joint or minor subject with French ) . |
| 9 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 10 | The majority of rejected photographic claims are due to impatience — the photograph is taken before entering the zone . |
| 11 | There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners ! |
| 12 | The way to tighten it is when you 're on a beat , just pull it in as the tension is taken by the mainsheet . |
| 13 | Where the comparative blameworthiness or culpability of the parties is taken into account , then the test is an objective one of deviating from the standard of behaviour of the reasonable man . |
| 14 | Since some of what is in people 's heads is taken from social science , there is a complication worth mentioning at the start . |
| 15 | Something which is seen to be efficient at the moment may not be efficient if the future is taken into consideration — and the other way round . |
| 16 | ENGLISH cricket fans are set to pay the price for political blunders at Lord 's when the crucial vote is taken in February on the venue for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 17 | If there are a number of nominations for the position of trustee , then a vote is taken in accordance with the rules as set in section 3 above but if there are three or more nominees , the chairman must continue taking votes until one nominee has a clear majority with the nominee obtaining the least support dropping out each time ( r 6.88(2) ) . |
| 18 | Brigadier Scott is taken to the Sergeants ' Mess to meet the Mess members , all of Whom have played vital parts either as instructors or in the administrative support of the recruits ' training , prior to lunching in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 19 | The following extract is taken from his account of what happened to a Japanese doctor , Dr Sasaki : |
| 20 | The extract is taken from the beginning of a story called ‘ Gaffer Roberts ’ . |
| 21 | The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) . |
| 22 | Our second extract is taken from the section of the report which deals with the police and ethnic minorities . |
| 23 | Again from the report of the Commissioners in 1863 , the following extract is taken from the evidence of Dr J.T. Arledge , senior physician of the North Staffordshire Infirmary : |
| 24 | This extract is taken from First Foal by Jane van Lennep published by J.A . |
| 25 | Where the ideal type of literacy is not found in a particular practice that practice is taken as an example of ‘ restricted ’ literacy . |
| 26 | The extent to which they try to run towards the red compared with the yellow is taken as a measure of how strongly they have been imprinted . |
| 27 | This will specify some feature or features possession of which by a suggested rule is taken as a conclusive affirmative indication that it is a rule of the group to be supported by the social pressure it exerts . |
| 28 | Problems arise when scrubbing is taken to extremes , particularly common among sufferers from spot-prone skin . |
| 29 | Monday 9pm : Finished tape is taken to BBC events unit at Kensington House , Shepherd 's Bush , west London , where it is kept ‘ under lock and key ’ , according to a BBC spokesman . |
| 30 | In golf 's World Matchplay Championship quarter-finals at Wentworth , Seve Ballesteros beats the American , Chip Beck , 9 and 8 , but Nick Faldo is taken to the 38th hole by South Africa 's David Frost before winning a sudden-death play-off . |