Example sentences of "[prep] [be] taken at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 2 | A decision tree illustrates the actions to be taken at each decision point . |
| 3 | There is thus a proliferation of public examinations of a practical kind , any of which may be taken at the new schools , of which the GCSE seems to be only one , if it is to be taken at all . |
| 4 | Indeed , if the message of its architecture is to be taken at all at face value , it was a city in which the factions did not follow conventional lines at all . |
| 5 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 6 | To gain these advantages , a fresh look will need to be taken at all our storage risks to ensure that the system does give the required performance . |
| 7 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 8 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 9 | It has to be taken at one specific time , the end of the fifth year . |
| 10 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 11 | He was keen for more business to be taken at full Cabinet level and set about dismantling parts of the Attlee machine . |
| 12 | This method enables a fresh look to be taken at some of the explanations commonly put forward for the decline of manufacturing in the large conurbations , such as skills shortages , problems with labour relations and premises , and difficulties faced by small firms . |
| 13 | It encouraged the tendency for uncoordinated initiatives to be taken at different levels of the diplomatic hierarchy and contradictory signals to be sent out to foreign powers . |
| 14 | The 10-point plan outlined broad proposals for regional peace via measures to be taken at national level to resolve conflicts in individual countries , notably in Nicaragua and El Salvador . |