Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a student who has performed outstandingly well in the HNC/HND examinations or has taken a combination of units particularly well matched with the requirements of the degree course may be considered for exemption from appropriate parts ( normally up to half ) of the second-year ( or the part-time equivalent ) of the degree course . |
| 2 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 3 | Patients are so grateful to get treated they do not complain or get taken seriously . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 5 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 6 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 7 | None had any complicating medical condition or previous history of gastric surgery , or had taken antibiotics or bismuth preparations in the previous six months . |
| 8 | None was receiving antibiotics or had taken acid inhibitory agents within the previous week . |
| 9 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 10 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 11 | In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge . |
| 12 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 13 | Even allowing for the reluctance of the courts to subject operational police decisions to judicial review , it may be apparent that the police have failed to take into account in their decision making a relevant consideration , or have taken into account an irrelevant one , which would leave the decision open to review . |
| 14 | Considering geography as the description of the changes that take place or have taken place in or at the surface of the earth Linton ( 1965 ) suggested that any changes which occur in the real world imply that work has been done and energy expended . |
| 15 | To suggest that the Government have taken no action , or have taken no action against the specific problem of advertising directed at children , is a charge that does not stand up . |
| 16 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 17 | For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions . |
| 18 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 19 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 20 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 21 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 22 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
| 23 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 24 | But last night they produced the sort of display that has taken them to Wembley . |
| 25 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 26 | Chilcote and Edelstein argue that it is because of the type of industrialisation that has taken place . |
| 27 | Ordinary pumice , by contrast , shows a wide range in density , depending upon the degree of vesiculation that has taken place in the magma , but it is still nothing more than a solidified rock froth . |
| 28 | These supporting stems are about 12 inches tall and indicate the measure of erosion that has taken place in the limestone platforms since their foreign visitors settled upon them . |
| 29 | Compared to the freewheeling Rangers team under David Murray and Graeme Souness , critics have dismissed Celtic as a club that has taken its roots in poverty and charity to extremes . |
| 30 | The prime factor was ( and still is ) the vast expansion of paper note issues ( and bank deposits ) that has taken place in relation to world gold stocks . |