Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] taken [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 2 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 3 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 4 | This view is not new ; in fact it was put forward by Durkheim and other nineteenth-century writers , but it was often disregarded after the study of crime was taken over by the new discipline of criminology in the early twentieth century . |
| 5 | The idea of the wedding was taken up by the early Church as an illustration of the glory of the coming of God 's kingdom at the end of time . |
| 6 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 7 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 8 | This theatrical cry was taken up by the assembled Franks and Romans , and all present , including the pope , prostrated themselves before Charles in the ancient manner reserved for Emperor of Rome . |
| 9 | The cry was taken up by the loser of the previous fight who was still watching the new contest from his tree . |
| 10 | After that my attention was taken up by the organisation 's move to the new building . |
| 11 | On that occasion the site was taken over by the Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory but it was never suitably repaired and racing never returned to Brooklands . |
| 12 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 13 | A number of demands which were to be raised by the civil rights movement were taken up by the manifesto . |
| 14 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 15 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 16 | Clermont was taken over by the dux Victorius , a Gallo-Roman whom Euric had appointed as governor of Aquitania Prima ; Sidonius was sent into exile . |
| 17 | Much US media interest in the summit was taken up by the issue of whether there were still US prisoners of war alive in the former Soviet Union and whether information was available on US soldiers declared missing in action ( MIA ) . |
| 18 | The paper was taken over by the Shanghai party committee . |
| 19 | Freud 's theory was taken up by the French structuralist , Claude who developed it into a cultural determinist theory , which said that er , animals commit incest , human beings do n't . |
| 20 | The morning was taken up by the competition itself and after a good lunch in the Clubhouse , a fun game was organised in the afternoon . |
| 21 | In fact the world-wide Hilton chain was taken over by the Ladbroke Group in a £645 million deal completed in September 1987 ( Ladbroke also owns the Texas Homecare d-i-y store chain ) . |
| 22 | The yacht 's three crew Kevin Cowley , Robert Goodbody and Susan Tallon , all from Co Wicklow were taken off by the lifeboatmen and landed uninjured at Porthdinllaen . |
| 23 | When a road is taken over by the local authority there are usually substantial charges to be paid , but often , in the case of estate roads , the developers have accepted responsibility and entered into a bond with the local authority to secure their liability . |
| 24 | But most of the length is taken up by the cabin and since the Twingo is taller than a Sierra its packaging prowess is , perhaps , easier to appreciate . |
| 25 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 26 | The work of the JBCNS , the General Nursing Councils , the Central Midwives ' Boards , the Council for the Education and Training of Health Visitors , the Committee for Clinical Nursing Studies and the Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training was taken over by the new United Kingdom Central Council and four National Boards for England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , respectively . |
| 27 | Now Mr Brownbill , whose plight was taken up by the Echo 's Champ , Bill Jackson , has been told that work will start within the next few days at his South Liverpool home . |
| 28 | Now Mr Brownbill , whose plight was taken up by the Echo 's Champ , Bill Jackson , has been told that work will start within the next few days at his South Liverpool home . |
| 29 | The running of this line was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in July 1862 . |
| 30 | In one particular case the Education Committee neglected this way of life argument and only argued the closure on financial grounds ( against Regional policy ) but they were forced to reverse their decision when the matter was taken up by the local MP . |