Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be taken [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hundred and twenty out of 140 rooms were taken up by bands and crew . |
| 2 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 3 | The other forty-five seconds were taken up by a policeman talking to a reporter about having nothing to say except that there would be an inquest . |
| 4 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 5 | The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms . |
| 6 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 7 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 8 | Makeshift dwellings were bulldozed and some 30,000 occupants were taken away by lorry and left at a site at Jebel Awliya some 60 km further south . |
| 9 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 10 | In the early 1970s research into substitute care revealed lack of attention to planning and continuity , resulting in ‘ children who wait ’ ( Rowe and Lambert , 1973 ) ; these criticisms were taken up by a number of organizations . |
| 11 | Finally 5 Corps stated to Eighth Army : " it would appear that unless these formations are taken over by us as formed bodies and disarmed they will force their way across border as individual bandits plunder the country disorganise economic life our zone and threatened our security . |
| 12 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 14 | THE whole back page of the Dominions newspaper in Wellington on the morning of the Second Test between Ireland and the All Blacks was taken over by Steinlager , the ‘ official sponsors of the All Blacks ’ . |
| 15 | But it is doubtful whether many Greeks were taken in by such propaganda . |
| 16 | We have recommended that the Authority continues to monitor reading standards across the city but that the screening function of its traditional tests be taken over by National Curriculum Assessment at the end of Key Stage One . |
| 17 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 18 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 19 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 20 | Approximately one-third of all beds in gynaecological wards are taken up by women in the same condition . |
| 21 | That had resulted in 150 companies being taken on by five multiples and a 30 per cent increase in product listings . |
| 22 | Antonio ( whose ministerial duties were taken over by his deputy , Edmundo Carlos Alberto ) was the first member of the government to be held in connection with the plot ; he was also a member of the Frelimo central committee . |
| 23 | Nowadays , much the greater part of the legislative programme of the two Houses is taken up by Public Bills . |
| 24 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 25 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 26 | At a recital I attended , when an elderly twenty-one-year-old was performing , the first two rows were taken up by tiny children watching the performer 's every move like little sparrows watching their mothers bring in the worms . |
| 27 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 28 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 29 | These principled objections were taken up by the General 's political opponents , who dusted off the old charge of plebiscitarianism . |