Example sentences of "[noun] taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The patriarchate was abolished and ecclesiastical administration taken over by the Holy Synod ( 1721 ) , a department of state headed by a layman .
2 The script , about a soldier taken out of the trenches not , as he fears , to be shot , but to organize an army concert party , is just a rudimentary framework within which to present a number of variety turns .
3 As soon as we arrived after our long pull from the valley , she would arrange to have the horse taken out of the shafts .
4 Countries vary as to the proportion of the farm labour force taken up by the peasantry .
5 The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea .
6 On September 15th , William Joyce ( Director of Propaganda ) called together the principal Party speakers and delivered to them what amounted to a tirade against Jews and the attitude taken up by the Government on anti-Semitism .
7 The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only .
8 That the Hall was sometimes used as a refuge for recusants and fugitive priests was the subject of frequent speculation among the fishermen who gathered in Mother Russell 's alehouse , but if some knew more than others , they were n't saying : no one could ever be sure , after all , whether Elizabeth might one day be toppled by Queen Mary of Scotland , and England taken back into the arms of Rome all over again .
9 Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind .
10 The degree of sharing of domestic work depends on the amount of paid work taken on by the wife and the stage reached in the family life cycle .
11 On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates .
12 LARGE bundles of cash taken out of the Redcar betting ring on Saturday appear certain to turn up 275 miles away in the south of England today , writes Hyperion ( Chris Corrigan ) .
13 The plantation itself is close to a feeder stream that runs straight into the Cothi , as would acid taken in by the conifers .
14 Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both .
15 I wanted the sleeves to be semi-full , with the ease taken in at the wrist .
16 A twenty year mortgage taken out on the property amounting to £24,000 has not been fully repaid .
17 But the price raised by an estate agent desperate for his commission is now all too likely to be lower than the original mortgage taken out by the borrower .
18 Opinions on a whole range of theoretical issues were polarized in ways that can be related to positions taken up in the struggle for control of the social framework of science .
19 As a first step in describing this debate , consider the positions taken up by the two leading naturalists at the end of the eighteenth century , the Swede Linnaeus and the Frenchman Buffon .
20 The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA .
21 On a 25-year traditional with-profits endowment policy taken out by a man aged 29 with monthly premiums of £30 , the maturity pay-out has fallen from £61,505 a year ago to £58,754 now .
22 But Lazio have told them that he is covered by the policy taken out by the Italians at the time of his summer signing from Tottenham .
23 Either form of explanation acts as an insurance policy taken out against the contingency of actions and events .
24 The probability of a record becoming a synonym is therefore given by subtracting the proportion of the file area occupied by home records from the total proportion of the file area taken up by the file , that is α .
25 The troubled DIY group has been in talks with its bankers arranging a refinancing of the £553million loans taken out at the time of the management buy-out .
26 Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles .
27 The £56 ( for fitting an Alfasud seat ) included a metal bar to reduce the space taken up by the safety-straps in the boot .
28 With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square .
29 On a 3330 , the space taken up by the track index will be at least 57 per cent of track zero if all but one track of the device is allocated to data storage ( the remaining track is assumed to be reserved for overflow records ) .
30 Additionally , for the purposes of tax relief , the £75,000 ceiling on earnings ( £60,000 during 1989/90 ) applies to all new personal pensions taken out since the 1989 Budget .
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