Example sentences of "[been] taken [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 2 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 3 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 4 | But Alistair had quit , and the beano had been taken over by the only Tory rich enough to take his place : Jeffrey Archer . |
| 5 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 6 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 7 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 9 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She withdrew because her case has been taken over by the local authority , her solicitor Alistair Babbington said . |
| 12 | You will commonly , of course , advise your client of any facts of interest , which you have discovered by your enquiries ; for example , that the road has not yet been taken over by the local authority , that plans for building on the property were submitted to and rejected by the local authority , etc . |
| 13 | Within seconds , the sing-song chant had been taken up by the vast majority . |
| 14 | The Fraternity was disbanded , but many of its ideas and methods have been taken up by the new women 's organizations formed in the 1970s . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These proposals have been taken up by the public transport pressure group Transport 2000 in a campaign , launched in 1988 , called ‘ Feet First ’ . |
| 18 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 21 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |