Example sentences of "[noun pl] were take [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 5 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 13 | These principled objections were taken up by the General 's political opponents , who dusted off the old charge of plebiscitarianism . |
| 14 | 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 . |