Example sentences of "was taken by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salute was taken by the Mayor of Blackpool . |
| 2 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are still offering emergency cover . |
| 3 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are not on strike . |
| 4 | Goddess knew what would happen to hir if SHe was taken by the authorities . |
| 5 | I think that the decisive step towards an answer was taken by the English mathematician Alan Turing . |
| 6 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 7 | A different form of direct action was taken by the Derry Housing Association , set up in October 1965 . |
| 8 | The front row on the left was taken by the two light-skinned women who ran the Primary School . |
| 9 | The other two-thirds of sales tax revenue ( about 481 billion dinars ) was taken by the republics and provinces and the communes and cities ( of which the communes and cities appear to have received about 170 billion dinars ) . |
| 10 | In 1959 , the place of the Progress car was taken by the Blackpool Belle , an elegant structure in the form of a Mississippi paddle steamer . |
| 11 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 12 | When receiving a ball from Clarke , he missed it but it caught the straps and was taken by the ‘ keeper . ’ |
| 13 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 14 | At the first public meeting in St Margaret 's Hope , called only two days after the children were taken from their homes , a conscious decision was taken by the parents and the rest of the local community that supported them , to actively' court publicity . |
| 15 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 16 | I was taken by the drama of it — one mistake , and somebody 's at you with a meat cleaver . |
| 17 | The US citizen 's historic right to bear arms , for example , is thought by most of them to be both outdated and counter-productive , yet it was taken by the founding fathers to be ‘ self-evident ’ , inherently the due of human beings . |
| 18 | Count Eldred was slain in personal combat by Gorbad and the Solland sword , the Runefang of Solland given to Sigmar 's heirs by the Dwarfs , was taken by the Orcs . |
| 19 | After his final defeat by a large Empire army this crown was taken by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar and locked away forever . |
| 20 | When BA 's formidable chairman , Lord King , brought forward his retirement earlier this year his place was taken by the chief executive , Sir Colin Marshall . |
| 21 | This was taken by the Londoners as a threat to extend the Marshal 's jurisdiction to the City itself , and intensified rumours that Gaunt was intent upon curtailing the City 's liberties and replacing the Lord Mayor with a captain appointed by the crown . |
| 22 | Carrie was taken by the obvious sincerity of the man and she could only nod . |
| 23 | The decision to initiate the award scheme was taken by the BMC 's management committee following the recommendation of its training advisory group . |
| 24 | The bait was taken by the Swedish owner of Les Noces , and the auction went off without hitch . |
| 25 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 26 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 27 | Less note was taken by the CECOS Report of other ways of spending leisure , but a few mentions indicate that girls might for instance go to sewing classes , sing in choirs , and in one case learn " skirt dancing " . |
| 28 | Another successful bus picture was taken by the sponsor a fleet of painted buses from London , Birmingham and Manchester . |
| 29 | A similar attitude was taken by the provincial audiencias , now confined to strictly judicial functions . |
| 30 | Some seven days before the due date a decision was taken by the National Transport Workers ' Federation not to take part . |