Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been take [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His father , John Murphy , said he should have been taken to Durham Prison , where medical treatment which he said his son needed was available if necessary .
2 Trevors parents say their son should have been taken to hospital straight away , not left in pain for two hours .
3 Few will quarrel with the general principle that such steps should have been taken in Ulster .
4 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 .
5 If not twins , they might have been taken for brother and sister .
6 For a festival or a wedding feast a very similar dish , a gigot of mutton on a bed of sliced potatoes , might have been taken by Madame Escoffier senior to the village baker 's oven to cook .
7 ‘ He could have been taken by surprise .
8 Investigators say it 's possible the money may have been taken to Iraq or Turkey to buy refugee supplies on the spot .
9 Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds .
10 Leisure in the home : this photograph is labelled simply ‘ An Interior Kitchen 1927 ’ and may have been taken in Paisley , but nothing is known of the boy .
11 The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters .
12 If Hazel had been a human being he would have been expected to introduce his companions one by one and no doubt each would have been taken in charge as a guest by one of their hosts .
13 It was Abem Finkel , Muni 's brother-in-law , who worked out a screenplay from the basis of a draft by Musmanno and a melodramatic comedy about Slavic miners by Harry R. Irving , but there were other supervisors and writers involved and ultimately the vital decisions with regard to the project would have been taken by Jack Warner and his senior executive Hal Wallis .
14 That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene .
15 But in each case individual differences , and differences of the class as a whole , will have been taken into account as factors in planning for participation .
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