Example sentences of "be taken by a " in BNC.

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1 Care has to be taken by a critic in any of these cases to describe works as definitely as possible .
2 Any decision on whether to change the criteria so that smaller mergers would be automatically referred to the Commission will be taken by a qualified majority of the Council of Ministers .
3 In view of the customary informal liaison between environmental health officers and inspectors , however , it seems that as long as the inspector is striving to abate the odour , no action will be taken by a local authority until the odour becomes very bad indeed .
4 The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum .
5 Although technically complete the full line-up for Murrayfield 1993 has yet to be confirmed , simply because no-one knows whether the slot allocated to the former Soviet Union is going to be taken by a CIS selection or by one of the break-away republics .
6 In actions which demand the character of ordination and in which Christ himself , the author of the covenant , the bridegroom and head of the church , is represented , exercising his ministry of salvation — which is in the highest degree the case of the Eucharist — his role ( this is the original sense of the work persona ) must be taken by a man ’ ( Inter Insignores art.5 ) .
7 Although the Beech will still come to the UK ( the ‘ shocking pink ’ colour scheme being replaced with an authentic USAAF paint job ) , its place in the race will be taken by a Douglas A–26 Invader which is expected to arrive in Britain imminently and will be based at North Weald , along with the Beech .
8 It is hard to imagine Greeks letting basic decisions about their future be taken by a European parliament that would be about 97% non-Greek .
9 They imposed a two-fold test that the decision must both affect a person 's legal rights and also be taken by a court-like body .
10 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
11 The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order .
12 The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
13 The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
14 The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor .
15 Are there any reasons why a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken by a doctor ?
16 He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead .
17 In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner .
18 Is it then irrational for the Secretary of State , by devolution , to allow such decisions to be taken by a minister of state or Parliamentary under-secretary of state ?
19 Samples can be taken by a practice nurse , at a nearby health centre , or at a hospital laboratory , whichever suits the patient .
20 The social services team contracted to take and act on referrals within specified times ( the office would be manned between 9 am and 5 pm and referrals would be taken by a duty officer ; urgent referrals would be dealt with within two hours , non-urgent cases would be contacted within five working days ) .
21 If it affects more than one function , the decision must be taken by a manager senior enough to provide consultation with and cooperation with the other functions affected by the business .
22 I think that my comments will be taken by a fair commentator as fairly hostile to the Bill .
23 In the second half of the century decisions continued to be taken by a series of similar committees and indirectly by the seven provinces which sent delegates to the States-General .
24 A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
25 If it does n't come to the full county council , then I will make sure it does , but I , one would hope that a decision such as that , which is of paramount importance in a , a rural area would be taken by a full county council and not by education .
26 They 'll be taken by a convoy of local lorry drivers in March .
27 The crucial Mort Homme was to be taken by a flanking attack from the northeast , via the Bois des Corbeaux .
28 The if I can talk perhaps a little bit about the particular system that I 'm interested in , the way it works is that it well it diagnoses abdominal pain ; if you go into the erm particular casualty department — in the fact the Royal Sussex County Hospital at the moment — with back pain in your abdomen , lower abdomen , then the symptoms will be taken by a doctor and he will then go to the diagnostic computer and feed these symptoms in .
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