Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 2 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 3 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The remainder of this chapter is taken up with an account of an extended drama project which indicates how this interactive , cross-curricular approach works in practice . |
| 6 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 7 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 10 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 11 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 1970 saw another change when the canteen was taken over by a catering company , and vending machines for hot and cold drinks , and snacks were provided . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 16 | Similarly , children who are gifted perhaps in dance are taken out for a master class and so on . |
| 17 | She could not escape the thought that she felt exactly as if she were a child being taken out for a treat by a kindly uncle . |
| 18 | They will , for example , know how to alert immigration officers at all ports and airports to the possibility of a child being taken out of the country . |
| 19 | The remaining space in the window is taken up with the currently selected command sequence . |
| 20 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 21 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 22 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 23 | ( Doane 1984 ) The issue of the female viewer 's possibilities for identification was taken up in a different way in the work of Janet Bergstrom and in Laura Mulvey 's own ‘ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' ’ . |
| 24 | The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool . |
| 25 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 26 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 27 | The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut . |
| 28 | As the elder girl was taken out to the car , with police and social workers on either side of her , she turned round , touched her mother 's arm and said ‘ Are you all right , Mum ? ’ |
| 29 | At some time prior to 1810–1811 , the mill was taken out of the cloth trade and converted to a corn mill , run by William Clissold . |
| 30 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |