Example sentences of "[been] taken [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 2 | Children have been taken on by the Institute and given trial periods . |
| 3 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The widespread practice of making local , individual and personal bonds had , as we have seen , been taken over into the world of factional politics in the 1540s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They will tell you of problems in the area , forthcoming planning proposals , tree preservation orders , which of the drains have been taken over by the Council , road and transport problems , pollution , public rights of way , and so on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 15 | Since the 1950s , many of these functions have been taken over by the record producer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 18 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 21 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 22 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 25 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 26 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 27 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 28 | Despite the almost empty room , Isabel had been taken back to the gallery by a circuitous route through little-known passages deep inside the castle walls . |
| 29 | ‘ The boat nousts have been taken back by the sea about six or eight feet , ’ she said , and stones had been piled on top of them . |
| 30 | However , he telephoned from Kigali on Saturday to say that they had been taken out through the area in which the fighting had taken place without mishap . |