Example sentences of "[am/are] taken [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we are taken through a day at WRAC Headquarters in Guildford . |
| 2 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 3 | When the maltster is satisfied that germination has unlocked the rich natural sugars in the barley , the grains are taken to a kiln room where heat stops germination . |
| 4 | In that story women are taken to a castle , where they are abused and tormented by men . |
| 5 | Very few ideas that are taken to an OI will be adopted ( e.g. four out of 100 at Eastman Kodak Company , 1979–88 ) . |
| 6 | Courses in the earlier years introduce and develop the study of topics that are taken to an advanced level at honours — the pronunciation and grammar , and the functional , regional , and social varieties of present-day English and of the earlier periods of Old English , Middle English , and Early Modern English . |
| 7 | It will become increasingly important that such decisions are taken with a full understanding of the implications of this procedure . |
| 8 | Visitors are taken with a well informed guide on a tour of this historic town . |
| 9 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 10 | In structuralism , these formal properties are taken at a relatively abstract level . |
| 11 | This discrepancy is in part , caused by the many reports in which patients with reflux oesophagitis are taken as a single group , without separating them according to the degree or severity of the injury to the oesophageal mucosa , and in part by the lack of manometric studies in the same patients . |
| 12 | What constitute the elements of a structure , its units , never seems to be a problem for the structuralists because they are taken as an empirical property of the medium of signification ( the text ) . |
| 13 | And the waste from bath and basin are taken into a hopper head which connects to a drainpipe running into a gully ( often the same gully as the kitchen sink ) . |
| 14 | Liability problems may arise when new partners are taken into a firm or others leave . |
| 15 | Then they see the UN sign-off and are taken into a more thoughtful and dynamic context . |
| 16 | The centre of the resort is just three minutes walk , whilst the sister hotels are about six ( evening meals are taken in a sister hotel ) . |
| 17 | A company operating in such a society must realise that the extended family means that the decisions on consumption are taken in a larger unit and in different ways . |
| 18 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 19 | I have recently addressed the disciplinary committee on these issues and I am confident it is aware of their importance , although what decisions are taken in an individual case must always remain a matter exclusively for those who hear the case . |
| 20 | Although these two views of ‘ data ’ differ substantially , they are not incompatible , unless they are taken in an extreme form . |
| 21 | Lessons are taken by a black costumed Mrs Lesley Hayman , the education authority 's living history projects teacher , who poses as the stern ‘ Miss Bracegirdle ’ . |
| 22 | Such positions are taken by a bank on the basis of its view on how exchange rates are likely to fluctuate in the near future . |
| 23 | Visitors are taken by a well informed guide to absorb the atmosphere of the Headquarters of Racing . |
| 24 | All major decisions are taken by a general assembly in which each adult member of a kibbutz has the right to vote . |
| 25 | And if decisions about the economy are taken by a special social stratum , that stratum is a dominant class in relation to the proletariat . |
| 26 | Photographs are taken by a professional photographer and the prices start at £4O plus VAT for a 1O″ x 8″ print , although it is not compulsory to purchase any of the photographs taken . |
| 27 | In the summer we enjoy holiday classes which are taken by a different teacher each week and to which many friends from other classes in the district come to join us . |
| 28 | Today 's readings are taken from a book called A Cup of Water written by Janet Lacey who has devoted many years of her life to working for Christian Aid . |
| 29 | Three further units are taken from a range of options offered in the Faculty , providing the opportunity for students to set theatre studies in a wider social and intellectual context . |
| 30 | You are taken from a general understanding of PCs , all the way to a thorough understanding of PCs and Networks , and how to implement a satisfactory level of security . |