Example sentences of "and [adv] taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red Lion Square , covering about half an acre at the most , and mostly taken up by the Great North Road , represents just the shrunken remains of a market place that once covered about five times that area . |
| 2 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 3 | This festival was linked in the East with the birth of Mithras and later taken over by the Christians by conveniently moving the birthday of Christ to this date . |
| 4 | Sociology , for what little that is worth , was primarily associated with France and Britain , and enthusiastically taken up in the Latin world . |
| 5 | He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut . |