Example sentences of "[adv] taken [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 2 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 3 | With the slogan , ‘ The Chance of the 90s : Investing in Eastern Germany ’ , it sets out good reasons why other countries should do so — points already apparently taken up by Britain as a major investor . |
| 4 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 5 | In no other human discipline , not in philosophy , nor science , nor music , is it believed that there has been a particular revelation of God in history , so that that point in history is then necessarily taken up into the discipline . |
| 6 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 7 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 8 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 9 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 10 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 11 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 12 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 13 | As such it was eagerly taken up by newly enfranchised members of Roman society . |
| 14 | A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention . |
| 15 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 16 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 17 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 18 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 19 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 20 | Flight Lieutenant Gareth Williams MHCIMA , formerly training officer at the RAF School of Catering , Aldershot , has been promoted to Squadron Leader and has just taken over as Officer Commanding Catering Squadron , at RAF St Athan , Barry , Wales . |
| 21 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 22 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 23 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 24 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 25 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 26 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 27 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 28 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 29 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 30 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |