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

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1 Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials .
2 Many of the decisions in this regard will be taken annually by the partners : where departures from the general rules are agreed , they should be promptly set down in writing and signed by all partners .
3 Now the decision was that the money promised by the dairy company could not be recovered by the Crown , for the reason that ( a ) any prerogative power to tax had been taken away by the Bill of Rights 1689 , and that ( b ) as for the statutory powers of DORA , the Regulations under which the food Controller was acting did not on their wording enable him to impose a tax .
4 We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned .
5 Nos. 36–45 and 56–60 were the cars which replaced those taken away by the B.E.T .
6 The peace vibe and friendliness was taken away by the greed . ’
7 Church sources said four people were injured and 100 to 200 were taken away by the police .
8 A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ .
9 As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported .
10 Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light .
11 As this enters my head , my negativity begins to flow out of the soles of my feet and is taken away by the stream .
12 But as she sat on there , thinking of all that rubbish , which would have to be parcelled up , and carried down , and put in the garden ; and then taken away by the dustmen who would have to be paid , a new thought startled her mind .
13 Many were taken away by the Romans , others by Napoleon , but ours was a present from the Egyptian government in the last century — a jolly nice present , too , if I may say so .
14 Their grievances were almost totally ignored by the government and thus since the government suppressed almost any step taken collectively by the workers to improve their economic position , the political aims of the workers became dominant over the economic goals .
15 But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ?
16 Each activity is broadly timed , and space is allowed for each activity to be taken further by the children , so that they can develop ideas for themselves , and pursue the possibilities of the activity both at school and at home .
17 The hard mods had already taken to cropped hair by 1964 and the style was taken further by the skinheads , giving rise to their own name of peanuts and other names such as lemons , spy kids and no-heads .
18 So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal .
19 Such a commentary can be recorded or notes can be taken directly by the analyst .
20 Rank , however , seems to have been taken unawares by a move that provided a disastrous demonstration of how ineffective he was in protecting the interests of the American companies .
21 Determined not to be taken unawares by an attack under cover of darkness , Cope 's men , on his orders , ‘ stood all night under arms ’ only to find , as dawn broke through the morning mist , that the Jacobites were attacking from a totally unexpected direction , the east , to his rear , instead of the west , to his front .
22 Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts .
23 I reject the argument put forward both by Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson that the Bank of England will suffer no ‘ inconvenience ’ if they have to apply to vary an injunction before they can set the section 39 process in motion ; in most cases they will probably not even know of the existence of an injunction until after the notice is served ; and it is idle to suggest that , once this present case is decided , no similar points to those taken here by the plaintiffs will be raised in future .
24 I must admit to being somewhat taken aback by a remark in John Stewart 's letter about Gaelic ‘ being almost completely unrelated to any of the main European languages ’ ( Points of View , today ) .
25 Buckmaster , who normally dominated a conversation , had found himself taken aback by the scale Morgan foresaw they would operate on .
26 Despite being taken aback by the cost of kitting ourselves out , we went along to the local diving club , full of enthusiasm .
27 Sharpe was somewhat taken aback by the girl 's directness , but he nodded .
28 Billie was taken aback by the girl 's directness .
29 She smiled a little , taken aback by the spareness of the response .
30 Earlier , the Labour leader 's entourage was taken aback by the exit polls , and pinned their faith on expectations that the swing in the battleground marginals would tilt the balance in the party 's favour .
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