Example sentences of "had [be] taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 2 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 3 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 4 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 5 | Within seconds , the sing-song chant had been taken up by the vast majority . |
| 6 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 7 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 8 | A Pensioners ’ National Appeal had been taken up by the Daily Dispatch in 1938 and Ritchie Calder 's articles in the Daily Herald , ‘ Life on 10/ a Week ’ , provided a further boost for the 1939 agitation with their Orwellian revelations . |
| 9 | The most detailed of these came from Wilshere , who said that most of the time had been taken up by the medical evidence — summarised with a wealth of detail ( which will not be repeated here ) . |
| 10 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 11 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 12 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 13 | The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 . |
| 14 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 15 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 16 | ( This helps to explain why so many English liberals ceased to support France when they heard that Paris had been taken over by the ‘ mob ’ in 1793 . ) |
| 17 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 18 | On nationalisation this small research staff , under a refugee from Nazi Germany , Paul Schiller , had been taken over by the BEA 's commercial department . |
| 19 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 20 | The tasteful domain of the unknown Kettering children , with its bright bedspreads , art reproductions and posters from exhibitions in Florence , had been taken over by the Pargeters , who would soon reduce it to a tip . |
| 21 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 22 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 23 | In April a Sejm-appointed commission investigating the assets of the former PUWP and its allies revealed that some 1,866 of the PUWP 's 1900 buildings had been taken over by the government . |
| 24 | Since 1989 almost 700 S&Ls had been taken over by the RTC . |
| 25 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 26 | But Alistair had quit , and the beano had been taken over by the only Tory rich enough to take his place : Jeffrey Archer . |
| 27 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 28 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 29 | Aware that he had been taken on by the college as part of a programme of reform , Minton told Edie Lamont : ‘ They have inaugurated a drive to bring it in line with what they call Contemporary Trends . |
| 30 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |