Example sentences of "[prep] be taken [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prague was high on our list , and Paris , as a tonic , to be taken frequently in small doses . |
| 2 | The position of the ontological idealist is that the " physical world " is merely a modification of non-physical reality , and consequently that , in the strictest sense , there are no non-mental phenomena ( although " mental " has to be taken here in a very broad sense ) ; whereas the classical dualist view is that there are two fundamentally distinct types of phenomena , one physical the other mental , which though irreducibly different are nevertheless ontologically on a par . |
| 3 | Before they were out of the English channel a severe storm washed a man overboard and left Mrs Dutton so ill she had to be taken ashore in a pilot boat when the storm dropped . |
| 4 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 5 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 6 | It 's hard to be taken seriously in lederhosen … |
| 7 | Brown notes here that NT must interoperate with it to be taken seriously in the corporate community . |
| 8 | Two tablets of stone to be taken once in every lifetime . |