Example sentences of "take [adv prt] and [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year of arguments , Citrine finally relented and the EDA 's local work was taken on and expanded by the Area Boards , though its London headquarters , with a staff of 67 , survived as a formally separate organisation but with its £150000 annual budget financed principally by the industry . |
| 2 | Their involvement in those parts of the management plan in which they have not been previously interested will be taken on and driven by the possibly irresistible surge of the whole school 's development . |
| 3 | Taken in and taught by rancher Turnstall , he turns into a raging avenger when Turnstall is shot . |
| 4 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 5 | There seem to be strong parallels between energy in the body and energy in the landscape and , in the early 1970s , John Wheaton put forward in The Ley Hunter the idea of ‘ Earth Acupuncture ’ subsequently taken up and developed by Tom Graves . |
| 6 | His points have been taken up and expanded by others . |
| 7 | Draining peatbogs to plant trees releases more carbon dioxide than can ever be taken up and stored by the planted trees , according to a report by Friends of the Earth . |
| 8 | For Nicola Field : ‘ As you go on working you learn and you gain more experience and you start to get frustrated with being a side-kick and having your ideas continually being taken up and used by someone else . ’ |
| 9 | The key figure responsible for resurrecting the Durkheimian idea of the functions of crime was Erikson ( 1966 ) , but it was taken up and used by other writers of the period ( for example , Box , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations . |
| 11 | They were taken out and supported by James and Dorothy Rothschild close to Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury . |
| 12 | Those words have been taken out and replaced by ’ an ever closer union ’ but what is the difference ? |
| 13 | This image of the crocodile seemingly swallowing her offspring evokes a real primitive horror in human emotions ; it touches the fear of being taken back and devoured by the mother from whom we must grow away . |