Example sentences of "were [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |
| 2 | Before examining the steps which were eventually taken to resolve the various confusions now arising over policies on both Yugoslavs and Cossacks , there was one further development in respect of the Cossacks which must be considered separately . |
| 3 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 4 | They were eventually taken off the mountain by rescue teams from Oban and Dumbarton . |
| 5 | Some people , he explained , still wrongly believed that bodies were removed from coffins before being cremated and that ashes were eventually taken from a communal pile . |
| 6 | One night all these goods were secretly taken away and disappeared for good . |
| 7 | Mr Waddington is understood to take the view that the Court of Appeal last year reassessed the Birmingham confessions before concluding that they were properly taken and voluntarily given . |
| 8 | The castle of Poli , which dominated the north of the Campagna , and its fiefs were slowly taken over . |
| 9 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 10 | Would-be actors and actresses were rarely taken seriously by the Movement . |
| 11 | We know little of how the Politburo reached its decisions-it did not produce a Richard Crossman — although some information has been provided by members in the glasnost period ( for example it appears that , as in the British Cabinet , formal votes were rarely taken ) . |
| 12 | Of the big names , Esther Rangzen 's two present front men , my eye and ear were most taken by the gifted and versatile Grant Baynham . |
| 13 | According to The Daily Telegraph , that was the latest in a series of incidents in which children were inadvertently taken by car thieves . |
| 14 | They were somewhat taken aback , however , when its representative arrived not only with the chef , but with an assortment of eight other people , one or two of whom were faintly familiar , though unidentifiable save by Angelina , who had been best placed on Saturday evening to recognise the ‘ waiters ’ at the banquet . |
| 15 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 16 | NATO leaders were apparently taken by surprise when the Belgian Defence Minister , Guy Co me , announced on Jan. 25 , 1990 , that his government was studying plans for " the withdrawal of Belgian troops ( numbering 26,000 in total ) from West Germany " . |
| 17 | Lizzie became the focal point of Marjorie and Bill 's life ; holidays were only taken if Lizzie could go too . |
| 18 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 19 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 20 | Andrewes loved ceremonial and used incense in his private chapel , which , said Isaacson , was ‘ so decently and reverently adorned that some were so taken with it , that they desired to end their days in the Bishop of Ely 's chapel ’ . |
| 21 | There were a number of holiday cottages there , and we were so taken by their outlook that we talked about taking one for Christmas , but this morning saner counsels prevailed . |
| 22 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 23 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 24 | On Wednesday 20 March , three weeks after the dawn raids , Mr and Mrs H , the fourth family whose children had been removed , were suddenly taken to Kirkwall Police Station for questioning . |
| 25 | The carrots , or tins , at the end of the walk were 200 tins of Pedigree Pal Partners dog food which were eagerly taken home by hungry dogs . |
| 26 | There were a number of part-time farmers who indicated they would be happy to take part of their holidays to attend although holidays were normally taken to coincide with the busy time on the farm . |
| 27 | These were normally taken in the scullery as the lifting of hot water by bucket from the copper was quite a performance . |
| 28 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 29 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 30 | Risks were nevertheless taken . |