Example sentences of "[be] take [adv] by [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Streatham Hill in June 1951 , to an estate owned by the same company , later to be taken over by Lambeth Council . |
| 2 | EASTMAN Ross , the Aberdeen-based oil industry supplier , has been taken over by Kingswood Fluid Power Group . |
| 3 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
| 4 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 5 | The case has been taken up by Sligo TD Declan Bree , who said serious questions may have to be asked about how British intelligence knew about Mr Fox 's movements , since he travelled through Dublin on his way to Spain . |
| 6 | The children 's case has been taken up by Gloucester MP Douglas French , who wants the Secretary of State for Education to intervene : |
| 7 | They were offered round the industry and there are considerably worse things which could have happened to them than being taken over by Greene King . |
| 8 | One possible future for biomedical engineering not essayed by Heinz ( but which is being taken seriously by electronics wizard Clive Sinclair ) is the sending of minuscule probes into the bloodstream to repair damage at distant sites . |
| 9 | As Colin French was taken away by police animal rights supporters in the public gallery began to cheer and clap . |
| 10 | ( This bank was taken over by Barclays Bank before the First War . |
| 11 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 12 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |