Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] taken [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction of the Son from the Father was a theme vehemently taken up by the Roman presbyter Hippolytus . |
| 2 | Department of Health officials wrote to regional administrators in 1980 with details of a new plan — code-named Bittern — providing for ‘ the use of service ambulances and drivers in the event of an industrial dispute ’ — the decision now taken yesterday by ministers . |
| 3 | Department of Health officials wrote to regional administrators in 1980 with details of a new plan — code-named Bittern — providing for ‘ the use of service ambulances and drivers in the event of an industrial dispute ’ — the decision now taken yesterday by ministers . |
| 4 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 5 | The invective she 'd rehearsed hovered on her lips , her breath momentarily taken away by the utter gall of the man . |
| 6 | She highlights Van Uden 's insistence on imitation ( and reward ) as the teaching approach to language , at the expense of natural elaboration of utterances — as occurs with hearing children ( this is one aspect of teaching style also taken up by Wood , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Munro 's Tables created a challenge enthusiastically taken up by climbers ever since , the ascent of all the 277 Munros being a prime objective of those who find enjoyment in hillwalking . |
| 8 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 9 | The position eventually taken up by Makarenko was one where the ultimate criteria of truth and morality had to reside in the centralized state . |
| 10 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 11 | Many of them admit it 's the most dangerous mission ever taken on by UN forces . |
| 12 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 13 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 14 | In terms of the land which is lost and will it be counted , er I would agree with David Allenby , in so in so far as where small sites are lost , they are in fact largely taken up in past land-take trends , but when a major site is lost , that at the moment forms part of the ninety one base of employment , and it it is something that we would n't have anticipated , therefore I think in terms of when we look at land availability figures and availability of supply erm we would have to look very carefully at land which is lost or significant land which is lost , or a significant number of jobs , it would n't necessary be added onto the structure plan requirement , but it could be deducted from the land availa land availability figures as land lost . |
| 15 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |
| 16 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 17 | Admittedly the time given to the children will replace time previously taken up by her career , at least in the earlier stages of family life ( later she may resume her occupation with double demands upon her attentions ) . |