Example sentences of "[noun sg] taken [adv prt] by [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 | Countries vary as to the proportion of the farm labour force taken up by the peasantry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The plantation itself is close to a feeder stream that runs straight into the Cothi , as would acid taken in by the conifers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 11 | The £56 ( for fitting an Alfasud seat ) included a metal bar to reduce the space taken up by the safety-straps in the boot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Alfred went to Germany with the Brigade after the war and was stationed at Bielefeld , a German army camp taken over by the British : |
| 15 | In a recent case taken on by the Pension Income Maximiser Service , the best quote was nearly a third more than the worst , and was 10 per cent better than most of the others . |
| 16 | After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman . |
| 17 | The 1966 decision of the Hertfordshire Education Committee to nominate the College as a polytechnic was the challenge taken up by the development plan . |
| 18 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |
| 19 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 20 | The negotiating position taken up by the unions will be an important factor , and Naville recognises that the behaviour of the unions will be influenced by many factors additional to the technology used in some trade union members ' firms . |
| 21 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 22 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |