Example sentences of "[being] take [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One floor of the warehouse is devoted to publications from Polygon , founded in the 1960s as a radical student publishing company , and losing none of its avant-garde reputation despite being taken over by EUP three years ago . |
| 2 | The growth in pre-school services , which in no way matches parental demand , might be seen as clear evidence that some of the family 's functions in child-rearing , even in the earliest years , are being taken over by professionals ( e.g. nursery teachers and nursery nurses ) and other ‘ specialist ’ child carers ( e.g. child minders ) . |
| 3 | It provided employment for many hands over many decades , eventually being taken over by Kleeman Ltd , which later became part of the Mobil Chemicals group . |
| 4 | On Jan. 3 over 40 holiday homes were blown up in Anghone and Porto Vecchio and a number of occupants taken hostage temporarily , to force the French government into " a true process of decolonization " and to stop Corsica from being taken over by property developers and turned into the " sun-tan centre of Europe " . |
| 5 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 6 | They were offered round the industry and there are considerably worse things which could have happened to them than being taken over by Greene King . |
| 7 | On being taken over by Fujitsu , ICL was expelled from the European Computer Trade Group and forced to leave three EC collaborative projects , yet for some reason , IBM was allowed to participate . |
| 8 | Would he care to address the fact that because these orders are being taken separately for Wales and England it is not possible to make the quota applicable in the same way in the same parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Of these posts 40 per cent were filled by Liechtensteiners , the remainder being taken either by foreigners living in Liechtenstein or by employees commuting from Switzerland and Austria . |
| 10 | A ballot of parents has to be held before a transfer to grant-maintained status can be accomplished , the decision to hold a ballot being taken either by resolution of the governing body or at the request of a percentage of the parents . |
| 11 | But the underlying purpose , that of reducing unnecessary bureaucracy , stripping away the red tape which hinders enterprise and good er governance in this country , is something that the government is very committed to and we intend to promulgate that doctrine throughout all the areas and that of course is being taken forward in legislation . |
| 12 | The AEF 's concept is being taken forward by representatives of two groups which might be seen as having totally opposing interests : the IATA-sponsored Air Transport Action Group and the AEF — a co-operative effort which is in itself an encouraging indication of what can be achieved . |
| 13 | The grass in the middle had been ploughed up into a dustbowl , and here and there pools of dark blood showed where bodies thrown out had lain before being taken away to hospital . |
| 14 | The transporter is being taken away for examination by Department of Transport experts investigating the cause of the accident |
| 15 | He stared at the hemline which was being taken up to Therese 's knees . |
| 16 | There was a trestle table and a huge stool , the rest of the room being taken up with leather and wooden caskets of all sizes . |
| 17 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 18 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 19 | One hundred and fifty temporary workers are being taken on at Europe 's biggest ice cream factory Birds Eye Walls in Gloucester to cope with increased demand . |
| 20 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 21 | ‘ You see all these Italian and French drivers being taken on in Formula One because their country 's industries back them . |
| 22 | I was being taken somewhere by car and a stop had been made at Kelvin 's petrol pumps opposite . |
| 23 | HOUSE ASIDE , European acts have always had trouble being taken seriously in Britain , and though Finland 's Leather Nun have always scraped a smattering of cult credibility here , ‘ International Heroes ’ is a bloody good attempt at becoming just that . |
| 24 | HOUSE ASIDE , European acts have always had trouble being taken seriously in Britain , and though Finland 's Leather Nun have always scraped a smattering of cult credibility here , ‘ International Heroes ’ is a bloody good attempt at becoming just that . |
| 25 | The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation . |
| 26 | One possible future for biomedical engineering not essayed by Heinz ( but which is being taken seriously by electronics wizard Clive Sinclair ) is the sending of minuscule probes into the bloodstream to repair damage at distant sites . |
| 27 | Such measures involve different aspects : physical security , such as the security of disk storage facilities , from flood as well as unauthorised access ; software security , such as maintaining a log of all failed access requests ; and , operational security , for example with regard to work data being taken home by employees , and periodic data protection audits of the computer systems . |
| 28 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 29 | CHELSEA bad boy Graeme Le Saux last night apologised for his shirty protest after being taken off at Stamford Bridge . |
| 30 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |