Example sentences of "is taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 2 | Orinthia is his mistress and this speech is taken from an amusing scene between Orinthia and Magnus . |
| 3 | When barley is harvested it is taken to a maltings where the grains are soaked in water to encourage germination . |
| 4 | The majority of rejected photographic claims are due to impatience — the photograph is taken before entering the zone . |
| 5 | Whether or not the opportunity is taken up is another matter ! |
| 6 | At the time of looking up we ascribe an experience of greenness to ourselves ; we consider the experience as something being undergone by us before any decision is taken about its veridicality . |
| 7 | The term ‘ refractory ’ is taken from the theorist James Mark Baldwin . |
| 8 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 9 | If the latter option is taken , it is better to spread the intake throughout the day so as to continually top up the body 's supply . |
| 10 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 11 | If you are entitled to a community charge reduction as explained earlier this is taken off your bill first before your benefit is worked out . |
| 12 | A short walk from this belvedere takes you to a wonderful steep wall which at its outer edge is taken by the final pitches of some famous harder routes like Spitophage Pervers and Dingomaniaque . |
| 13 | The transformer simply plugs into a mains socket indoors or in a garage , and only the low-voltage wire is taken outside . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | In the long term , provided care is taken , there should be relatively few problems . |
| 16 | Particularly with large dogs , it 's essential for their future control and success as a pet that simple training in the basic commands , such as ‘ sit ’ , ‘ stay ’ , ‘ down ’ , ‘ come ’ and ‘ stop ’ are taught as soon as the puppy is taken on . |
| 17 | The output of this divider is taken to the phase detectors . |
| 18 | For telegraphic traffic however it is taken as 48 . |
| 19 | Indeed there is a strong case for using it generally , even among lower quality systems when the lack of setting up is taken into account . |
| 20 | The two central characters are both academic teachers of English : Morris Zapp is one of the biggest guns in the Plotinus faculty , who elects to take a visiting professorship at Rummidge in order to escape from his marital problems ; his place is taken by Phillip Swallow , a naïve , amiable , unambitious Rummidge lecturer . |
| 21 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 22 | And throughout Kenner 's book ‘ English ’ is taken to imply arrogant obtuseness , complacent inertia , and effeminate enervation . |
| 23 | His place in the second row is taken by Scotland 's Damian Cronin , with England 's Rob Andrew taking over the captaincy . |
| 24 | Unless action is taken , increasingly more congestion will result in the already over-crowded South-east . |
| 25 | Everything is taken from previously published material . |
| 26 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 27 | These matters will be looked at before a firm decision is taken . |
| 28 | ‘ One must recognise that these polls take place , but also carefully remember that a decision about any vacancy that takes place is taken by my colleagues in the House of Commons , and not the general public . ’ |
| 29 | But other problems have arisen which will make 1990 a difficult year even when Sky is taken into account . |
| 30 | ‘ I think that he is an actor of international standing and if the production is taken up I want him to stay with it . |