Example sentences of "[vb past] be taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 2 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 3 | The data used was taken from two separate surveys carried out in 1977 and 1981 . |
| 4 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 5 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 6 | ‘ It was in the paper that she 'd been taken from the harbour . |
| 7 | The tissue studied was taken at least 5 cm distant from any macroscopic disease . |
| 8 | If we had an income tax in the model so that some part of any extra income received was taken in taxes by the government , total withdrawals would rise and the multiplier would be smaller . |
| 9 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 10 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |
| 11 | Rollo loved being taken to the gilt and plush ambience of Rules in Covent Garden , to which his riposte was Lock-Obers in Boston , which he protested was not so good . |
| 12 | The policy has stifled realistic thinking and become a conspiracy whereby happenings such as the attempt to assassinate William Black was carried out under 2 Conservative government and the decision by the Attorney General to have no one prosecuted was taken under a Labour one . |
| 13 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 14 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 15 | When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures . |
| 16 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 17 | France 's Finance Minister , Pierre Beregevoy , insisted a step had been taken towards eliminating fiscal frontiers . |
| 18 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 19 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 20 | I did not think to emulate Mr Gladstone , who is reputed to have put tea in a stone ‘ pig ’ and then drunk it after the chill had been taken off the sheets . |
| 21 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 22 | After returning the painting to the icon shop , the dealer subsequently received two contradictory letters , the first stating that ‘ his ’ Wtewael had been placed on the national index of important works of art that could not leave Germany , and the follow-up , which noted that the Wtewael had been taken off the index , and that it could , therefore , be exported . |
| 23 | A burden had been taken off her . |
| 24 | Replying to a protest by the UK Labour Party , which described the ban on Vietnam as " a ridiculous embargo " , a UK Foreign Office spokesman said that only one former communist country — the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) — had been taken off the banned list , after unification with the Federal Republic of Germany ( FDR ) on Oct. 3 [ see pp. 37761-63 ] . |
| 25 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 26 | Three had been dismissed , two had been taken off active duty and the other had been suspended . |
| 27 | This is because we have fairly strong evidence from ancient Egyptian art , showing that cats had been taken under human control by that period . |
| 28 | Armenia denied reports that the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorny Karabakh with Armenia [ see p. 38925 ] had been taken under Azeri control . |
| 29 | They were concerned about the cruel manner of the uplift of the children , and that such action had been taken without proper investigation . |
| 30 | The decision to impose a state of emergency in late November had been taken without Khan 's knowledge , while he was in Saudi Arabia inspecting the Bangladesh military contingent in the Gulf . |