Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be taken [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 2 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 3 | Jenkins did quite a delivery trade , the goods being taken out by Mr. Bevis on a very old ‘ errand boy 's ’ bike with a wicker basket at the front . |
| 4 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 5 | Now what happens when you go to the station on a Sunday to park your car and find all the spaces are taken up by a car boot , er the whole think is a nonsense and er frankly somebody should tell British Rail so er I wonder if this is Chairman a shot across the bows of er rail privat privatisation and if it is I welcome it . |
| 6 | The bones remaining within the intact pellets were found to be protected from weathering and after two years the pellets were taken apart by hand and the bones from them exposed again . |
| 7 | Pressed by the committee chairman , Labour MP Greville Janner , Mr Clarke admitted the final decision to close the pits was taken jointly by him and President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 8 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 9 | The oilmen were taken off by a fleet of helicopters after the vessel lost one of its anchors and was later forced to shed its seven remaining ones . |
| 10 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 11 | But the cautious words of the politicians were taken further by an impatient crowd , demanding : ‘ Helmut and Hans , make Germany one again . ’ |