Example sentences of "[verb] been taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 2 | Jonathan Aitken has been taken off the back benches and made minister of state for defence , in the hope that he can continue to rally the Euro-sceptics as he did over Maastricht . |
| 3 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 4 | To comply with the IEE Wiring Regulations , an immersion heater must have its own electric circuit run from a spare fuseway at the consumer unit , though there are many houses where the supply for the immersion heater has been taken off the upstairs ring circuit . |
| 5 | £100,000 worth of equipment has been taken off the site . |
| 6 | It seems strange that you can defend your wicket with your bat , pads and any part of your body except your hand , if it has been taken off the bat . |
| 7 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 8 | The only movement in UK law towards this concept is that companies with 250 or more employees are obliged to state in their directors ' report what action has been taken during the year on employee consultation and participation . |
| 9 | The bidder 's estimate is that at least £31million of the property profit has been taken above the line , and Kingfisher also questions whether Dixons made any profit at all in 1988-89 from selling electrical goods in the UK . |
| 10 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 11 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 12 | The accused need not know that the owner does not consent or know that the conveyance has been taken without authority . |
| 13 | In the " allowing " form the accused must know that the conveyance has been taken without lawful authority . |
| 14 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 15 | Point Five has been taken as the benchmark ice gully climb , and would be graded V , 5 under the new system . |
| 16 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 17 | In a variety of ways these rights were re-interpreted from the later 1940s and this has been taken as an indication that ‘ duty ’ remains the norm as ‘ Japanese business has still not accepted a union 's right to speak for its members ’ ( Halliday 1975 p.221 ) . |
| 18 | As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 20 | For concreteness , we focus on the corporation tax , which has been taken as the main application of the analysis . |
| 21 | It has been taken as a reassurance by the British textile industry . |
| 22 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 23 | Critics also argue that little account has been taken of changes already forced on commercial broadcasting before legislation . |
| 24 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 25 | No account has been taken of , amongst other things , the role of soil factors , of disturbance , or canopy density . ’ |
| 26 | In designing the course , full account has been taken of the need to provide students with the skills necessary not only to make a contribution to the current environment , but also to be sufficiently adaptable to the exciting future of the industry . |
| 27 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 28 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 29 | Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision . |
| 30 | Where account has been taken of factors other than the judicial view on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in fixing the date , the date will be adjusted to bring it into line with the judicial view . |