Example sentences of "[noun] was take by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1959 , the place of the Progress car was taken by the Blackpool Belle , an elegant structure in the form of a Mississippi paddle steamer . |
| 2 | When a formal vote was taken by the Council of Ministers ( a rare event since they usually sought to reach consensus ) , the record of the vote would be published . |
| 3 | A different form of direct action was taken by the Derry Housing Association , set up in October 1965 . |
| 4 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 5 | A similar attitude was taken by the provincial audiencias , now confined to strictly judicial functions . |
| 6 | When BA 's formidable chairman , Lord King , brought forward his retirement earlier this year his place was taken by the chief executive , Sir Colin Marshall . |
| 7 | Carrie was taken by the obvious sincerity of the man and she could only nod . |
| 8 | Although the lifts were adjacent in a common lift well , the main passenger loading was taken by the two passenger lifts which shared a common control system . |
| 9 | Another successful bus picture was taken by the sponsor a fleet of painted buses from London , Birmingham and Manchester . |
| 10 | The Treasury was consulted less about economic matters , and its place in servicing the relevant Cabinet committees was taken by the Economic Section . |
| 11 | Hilary Wade was taken by the question about what might have happened on these islands had the Romans left us alone . |
| 12 | ‘ When the Gruagach came storming down from their city to take Tara , Gruagach was taken by the Geimreadh . |
| 13 | The bait was taken by the Swedish owner of Les Noces , and the auction went off without hitch . |
| 14 | This approach was taken by the Court of Appeal in the following case but failed on the facts in the House of Lords . |
| 15 | A similar approach was taken by the Court of Appeal in Butler Machine Tool Co v Ex-Cell-O Corpn [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 401 . |
| 16 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are still offering emergency cover . |
| 17 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are not on strike . |
| 18 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 19 | The same line was taken by the independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the CBI . |
| 20 | The same line was taken by the independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the CBI . |
| 21 | The decision to ban Suu Kyi was taken by the Yangon ( Rangoon ) division elections commission after a complaint had been filed against her by a member of the National Unity Party ( NUP ) , the majority of whose members had links with the former ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party . |
| 22 | The decision to transfer the capital from Lagos , in the south , to the new city of Abuja at a politically neutral site in central Nigeria was taken by the government of Gen. Murtala Muhammad in 1976 [ see pp. 27835-36 ] . |
| 23 | The salute was taken by the Mayor of Blackpool . |
| 24 | The salute was taken by the First Sea Lord , Admiral Sir Benjamin Bathurst , Lord Sterling , the President of the Chamber of Shipping , Edmund Vestey and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool . |
| 25 | I think that the decisive step towards an answer was taken by the English mathematician Alan Turing . |
| 26 | The decision to initiate the award scheme was taken by the BMC 's management committee following the recommendation of its training advisory group . |
| 27 | The central position was taken by the headmaster himself , and the live coals sent vivid warmth to his posterior . |
| 28 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 29 | After his final defeat by a large Empire army this crown was taken by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar and locked away forever . |
| 30 | The decision to hold a referendum was taken by the city council in April , following a year-long public debate . |