Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 2 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 3 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 4 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 5 | Ruth 's thoughts flinched from what it must feel like to be Fand — she seemed hardly to exist , so much had been taken from her . |
| 6 | In April 1943 Nazi German forces occupying the Smolensk area had disinterred what wartime and post-war international investigators concluded to be the remains of former Kozelsk camp inmates , who apparently in early 1940 had been taken to Katyn forest and shot . |
| 7 | The decision to support Iraq 's candidature for the League of Nations in 1932 had been taken before Humphrys 's arrival , but some misgivings were expressed about the lack of any guarantees for the Assyrian and Kurdish minorities after the transition to independence . |
| 8 | A little way on we came to another village , where some of the evicted had been taken in and given shelter . |
| 9 | Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] . |
| 10 | Nothing at all had been taken . |
| 11 | Of these the most dramatic had been taken by a Ramallah lawyer , Aziz Shehadeh , who had already demonstrated his independent thinking in 1948 as a leading spirit in the Ramallah Congress of Refugee Delegates ( see above pp. 83–5 ) . |
| 12 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |
| 13 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 14 | Pressed to state whether he was satisfied that nothing illegitimate had been taking place , Stewart was evasive . |
| 15 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 16 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Three had been dismissed , two had been taken off active duty and the other had been suspended . |
| 19 | Thus in 1988 the Tanzanian Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee reported that about $5 million had been taken in 1987 in the form of ‘ outright theft ’ from parastatal companies . |
| 20 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 21 | Both had been taking fluticasone propionate during the trial , but the investigators considered the deaths were caused by disease activity rather than the treatment received . |