Example sentences of "[was/were] take [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 2 | It is interesting to observe that just at the point when the old sources of clerical recruitment , the married clergy , were taking to celibacy , the supply of clergy did not dry up , it multiplied exceedingly . |
| 3 | The canoes were taking in water and sinking . |
| 4 | Its two most recent decisions on the Government 's power to restrain publications by former Crown servants — Spycatcher and the Cavendish Memoirs — were marked by references to the Convention and by an obvious desire manifested by most of the judges to ensure that both the law they were declaring and the decision they were taking in accordance with it would be seen to comply with Article 10 . |
| 5 | Theoretically at least , if tourism was to increase by £20,000 million , ( four-fold ) , and if holidays previously taken abroad were taken at home , the calculations justify the transfer of tax burden entirely from earnings to spending . |
| 6 | Terminal ileal biopsy specimens were taken at ileocolonoscopy ( four patients ) for patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis and by the ileostomy of two patients who had a colectomy for UC ( histological reports state that 2 and 4 cm of ileum had been resected with the colectomy ) . |
| 7 | Tissue specimens were taken with biopsy forceps ( FB-25K , Olympus , Tokyo , Japan ) from the border of the gastric ulcer , and 5–10 cm away from the ulcer in the endoscopically normal gastric mucosa . |
| 8 | Four soldiers were taken to West Suffolk Hospital , Bury . |
| 9 | Would there be fewer deaths if more farmers were taken to court , and faced higher penalties ? |
| 10 | Orthodox Protestants doing no more than exercising their democratic right to protest against the paying of tribute to the Antichrist were taken to court and fined . |
| 11 | More than 136,000 mortgage payers were taken to court in 1990 , a 63 per cent rise on 1989 , according to the Lord Chancellor 's Department ; but only 55,000 possession orders were made ( 49,000 in 1989 ) . |
| 12 | The press were taken to court over publication of extracts from Spycatcher with its details of the adventures of the ‘ security ’ forces . |
| 13 | Fifty youngsters from Kirkby CE Primary School and Simonswood Primary School were taken to Alder Hey Children 's Hospital after they were overcome by strong bleach fumes used to clear a blocked drain at the pool . |
| 14 | It presents a selection of pieces from the period when Turin was particularly open to exchanges with other European capitals : sculptures by Ignazio and Filippo Collino , intagli by Bonzanigo , water-colours by Bagetti and oils by Giuseppe Mazzola illustrate the high standards achieved by local artists during the late eighteenth century and the Restoration period as new developments in Rome and Paris were taken to heart . |
| 15 | In fact this correspondent initially wrote to the children soon after they were taken to mainland Scotland . |
| 16 | LANDLORDS were taken to task today for running ‘ dirty , grubby and unfriendly ’ pubs . |
| 17 | About 1.30 a.m , they were taken to Compound 14 . |
| 18 | A WRECKED block of maisonettes at Dagenham , east London , where four people were taken to hospital yesterday after a gas explosion . |
| 19 | Five policemen were taken to hospital after a lorry overturned while carrying canisters of the chemical phenylacetonitrile near Scotswood Bridge , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 20 | An unreported incident in which 20 army officer cadets were taken to hospital during the summer after canoeing in a lake at Leek , Staffordshire , has convinced the National Rivers Authority that Britain faces a serious algae problem . |
| 21 | Dozens of people were injured during the police operation , including three Vietnamese who were taken to hospital . |
| 22 | But you did n't die just because you were taken to hospital — unless you were old . |
| 23 | In another crash , 11 people , including six children , were taken to hospital after a coach carrying 45 children collided with a minibus on the A40 near Haverfordwest , Dyfed . |
| 24 | Two other students were taken to hospital . |
| 25 | Another 20 people , many suffering cuts and shock after being cut from the tangled wreckage of their cars , were taken to hospital . |
| 26 | In another accident two people were taken to hospital after a three-car pile-up on the A350 , near Chippenham , in Wilts . |
| 27 | Four other people were taken to hospital , including a man in his 60s who jumped from an upstairs window and a 56-year-old woman suffering from shock and the effects of smoke . |
| 28 | The friends , on a pleasure flight from a hotel , were taken to hospital for checks . |
| 29 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 30 | All six were taken to hospital suffering hypothermia . |