Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be taken [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 2 | You 'll not allow any of those beautiful antique pieces to be taken away by that old woman . |
| 3 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 4 | So only the police , army and ‘ bureaucracy ’ would be dismantled by the representatives of the proletariat , leaving the registration and accounting work of banks , factories , academies , syndicates , experimental stations , and other institutions to be taken over by proletarian soviets . |
| 5 | The government 's policy was formally one of ‘ Ulsterization ’ , namely allowing a wide range of local programmes and policies to be taken over by local leaders . |
| 6 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |