Example sentences of "[noun pl] be take [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 2 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 3 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 4 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 5 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 6 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 7 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 8 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 9 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 10 | The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished . |
| 11 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 12 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 13 | You never hear of groups being taken over by the drummer . |
| 14 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 15 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 16 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 17 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 18 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 19 | Put simply , it means that your total reprographics facilities are taken over by the experts . |
| 20 | Sometimes working-class residents will live on peripheral council housing estates while older ‘ period ’ dwellings are taken over by the middle class . |
| 21 | These principled objections were taken up by the General 's political opponents , who dusted off the old charge of plebiscitarianism . |
| 22 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |