Example sentences of "is taken [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 2 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 3 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 4 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | The badly-damaged Toyota is taken away on a breakdown wagon after the head-on crash Picture : CLIFF BRETT |
| 6 | Nothing is taken away except the ability to have children and the only difference after the operation is that the seminal fluid ejaculated when a man reaches a climax contains no sperm . |
| 7 | As this enters my head , my negativity begins to flow out of the soles of my feet and is taken away by the stream . |
| 8 | Similarly , compare ‘ Germanic ’ with ‘ German ’ — when the stress is taken away from the syllable , the vowel weakens to . |
| 9 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 10 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 11 | In 1816 she satirizes the rambling , retrospective structure of the Gothic novel , producing a satiric plan for one such story , where the scene constantly shifts from one set of people to another , and the greater part of the first volume is taken up with a narration , by the heroine 's father , of past events in his various life . |
| 12 | In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war . |
| 13 | Flanders ( 1970 ) found that , on average , two-thirds of classroom time is taken up with the teacher talking , and two-thirds of this talk consists of lecturing or explaining . |
| 14 | Once a director able to work his obsessions into powerful narrative films like ‘ Point Blank ’ and ‘ Deliverance ’ , he has drifted towards autobiographical whimsy , with predictable consequences : much of his diary is taken up with the crisis of confidence after the failure of his ‘ Where the Heart Is ’ . |
| 15 | Accordingly , much of Volume I of the Critique is taken up with the attempt to prove the dialectic a priori as the universal method and the law of anthropology , superseding that which Kant had provided for analytical reason . |
| 16 | The remainder of this chapter is taken up with an account of an extended drama project which indicates how this interactive , cross-curricular approach works in practice . |
| 17 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 18 | Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin — ah yes , but one with a broken string . |
| 19 | A hard disk is required with almost 16Mb of hard disk available ( some 6Mb is taken up by the opening sequence which can be removed ) , and it may be necessary to allow the program to make its own boot disk if you do not have enough available memory . |
| 20 | My free time is taken up by the hairdresser and manicurist — and if I do escape them , I have to be fitted at the dressmaker 's . |
| 21 | But most of the length is taken up by the cabin and since the Twingo is taller than a Sierra its packaging prowess is , perhaps , easier to appreciate . |
| 22 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 23 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 24 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 25 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 26 | The matter of women 's support strategies is taken up in a number of papers by Pamela Fishman . |
| 27 | Because a very large part of any president 's time is taken up in the ceremonial , in the ritual , in meeting heads of states from other countries , from opening the equivalents of garden fetes , receiving parties of boy scouts , er and whatever else the Queen and her family do these days . |
| 28 | This decision is taken primarily as a matter of finance . |
| 29 | Of course , if the principle enunciated in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is followed , the error identified above can not possibly arise , because the question whether the company has consented to the taking of its property ceases to matter , so long as the property is taken dishonestly with the intention of permanently depriving the company of it . |
| 30 | A general anaesthetic is given and the bone marrow is taken usually from the hip bones using a syringe and needle ( no cuts , no stitches ) . |