Example sentences of "[been] taken [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals . |
| 6 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
| 7 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
| 8 | Sources indicated yesterday that the pricing process had been taken out of the hands of Scottish management . |
| 9 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |