Example sentences of "[noun sg] was taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 4 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 9 | ( 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' ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 12 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 13 | The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The cry was taken up by the loser of the previous fight who was still watching the new contest from his tree . |
| 18 | After that my attention was taken up by the organisation 's move to the new building . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sam Oxley 's millwright business was taken over by a Mr Wheatcroft in a turn a Mr Thompson took over from him . |
| 21 | His covered body was taken out to a cooler resting place , and suddenly the foundry seemed to be going round and round . |
| 22 | A large portion of the large room was taken up with a large number of very large men . |
| 23 | A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners ' wives were obliged to do . |
| 24 | One wall was taken up by a glass cabinet ; another by a huge mahogany wardrobe . |
| 25 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 26 | This notion was taken up in the model proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ( and developed by Hall and Pearce ( 1982 ) , and by Pearce , Kaye , and Hall ( 1982 ) ) , which was presented originally as an account of classical conditioning . |
| 27 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 28 | The first day was taken up by an introductory meeting explaining the visit 's purpose , the examination of these files and various job files . |
| 29 | Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions . |
| 30 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |