Example sentences of "be taken [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 2 | He had also won 12 England Youth caps and appeared in the World Youth Cup Finals in Australia in October 1981 , but neither here , or subsequently at Fulham , could he make sufficient impact to be taken onto the professional staff . |
| 3 | In warm weather , dehydration is a serious problem , and sufficient liquid must be taken during the flight even if this has its disadvantages afterwards ! |
| 4 | Special care must always be taken during the climb away if single-strand wire is being used , because there is no sudden jerk or noise if a kink breaks early on the launch . |
| 5 | Great care would be taken during the whole operation , and there need be no fears that varieties could be incorrectly named or labels lost . |
| 6 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 7 | We hope to stage another competition next year , but this time the photos will have to be taken during the year to be eligible . ’ |
| 8 | — effects that depend on the arrival time of words can be modelled , allowing ’ snapshots ’ to be taken during the processing of a sentence that induces a ’ cognitive double-take ’ ; |
| 9 | In turn , the gravels are themselves overlain by alluvial silty uniform sands around the junction with A8 and by lacustrine silty clay , peat and silt , associated with the former Gogar Loch , around the Gogar Burn and along South Gyle Broadway , and special measures had to be taken during the construction of embankments in these areas in order to avoid over-stressing the sub-strata and to accelerate the anticipated settlements . |
| 10 | This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on . |
| 11 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ flooded classrooms ’ might be taken as the product of bureaucratic desperation . |
| 13 | But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom . |
| 14 | Thus it was , that at some momentous point in the immensity of time there came into being three initial units which can be taken as the true beginning of the story of earthly life . |
| 15 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 16 | Just as it was possible to try the major war criminals after 1945 on the basis of generally accepted principles ( to which the Hague and Geneva codes contributed ) , so the 1977 Protocols must be taken as the clearest formulation of the laws presently applicable to armed conflict , including the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | It is , however , the financial losses of retirement from the labour force that seem usually to be taken as the key to the involuntary shift from independence to dependency in old age . |
| 18 | In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured . |
| 19 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 20 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |
| 21 | Evidently , the vector in ( 1 ) is arbitrary to a scalar complex multiplier , say unc + unc another vector satisfying ( 1 ) is thus unc Any arbitrary linear combination of p and q may therefore be taken as the real part of the vector , with a corresponding combination for the imaginary part . |
| 22 | The current expenditure on these tax benefits would be taken as the cash ceiling . |
| 23 | The taxpayers ' contention is supported by certain unfair consequences which could ensue if the cost of the benefit is to be taken as the average cost . |
| 24 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 25 | If L1 is sufficiently large so that unc then unc may be taken as the total primary current I1 , leading to the relationship |
| 26 | Until recently , at A level " the evidence " has mainly consisted of historians ' work ; a text book could be taken as the whole truth . |
| 27 | Ludlow may reasonably be taken as the actual founder of the movement : it was his earlier experience of social visiting among the London poor , and his knowledge of the French co-operatives , which gave content to Maurice 's theological groundwork . |
| 28 | For example in the revision of I want to + infinitive I want to go to Italy might be taken as the basic sentence . |
| 29 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 30 | ( It should be noted that the latter may only be taken as the final module in a masters programme ) . |