Example sentences of "have be take for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For too long now we have refrained from openly exercising our power and that restraint has been taken for weakness by our enemies . |
| 2 | Howard has a rather formal , almost rhetorical way of speaking , and a deliberate delivery that has been taken for hesitancy , but seems more like the manner of someone who weighs and measures his words . |
| 3 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 4 | When the officer said , ‘ You will be charged with sedition , over and above the mobbing , but in certain circumstances that might not be pressed , ’ Cameron distressed himself by making a small , indefinite sound which could well have been taken for agreement . |
| 5 | If not twins , they might have been taken for brother and sister . |
| 6 | Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed after a venous blood sample had been taken for determination of serum concentrations of urea , gastrin , and pepsinogen I. Immediately after passing the instrument , 10 ml of gastric juice were collected by means of a trap in the suction line . |
| 7 | A study by US scientist Stephen Leatherwood in 1984 suggested that between 2600 and 3000 black dolphins had been taken for crab bait in only two years . |