Example sentences of "have been taken [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 2 | The strongest argument we 've got is that has got a driving record worse than yours and he has been taken on despite that record . |
| 3 | Yes , er er I mean I agree with you Chairman entirely , I mean the arguments have been made before and I will just say them again , that I think the District Council are quite remiss er in asking for this sum of money , particularly in view of the reason that the , the , the field is there , which is for the recreation of the people who live in the estate , and the back end of Southwell , and it always has been , er and that is a responsibility that has been taken on by this Parish Council , and if , if , if they feel that they , they wish to persist in asking an unreasonable price , and let's face it , the District Council is in a position to look at this situation and say , the Parish Council is doing an excellent job , we will sell them this land for a figure that they can afford . |
| 4 | The business rate has been taken away from local authorities , and in London that accounted for about £2 billion of income . |
| 5 | In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto . |
| 6 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 7 | The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists . |
| 8 | Something like a third of the increase has been taken up in higher prices , with the prices of some capital goods , such as houses , actually doubling . |
| 9 | The system has been taken up in many countries , including the USA , UK and Australia , but effective evaluation has still to be done . |
| 10 | The ‘ social divisions ’ theme has been taken up in another way by some recent feminist writers who have been concerned to show not merely that many welfare provisions discriminate against women , but also that female services within the family and neighbourhood form crucial separate welfare systems , enhanced in importance when other systems fail or are withdrawn . |
| 11 | Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA . |
| 12 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 13 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |
| 14 | But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon . |
| 15 | ‘ We lived at Witton Park between 1908 and 1914 so this must have been taken sometime during this period , ’ adds Mrs McAninly . |
| 16 | That old fallacy of Father Kipling 's had been exploded long ago , and should never have been taken seriously in any case . |
| 17 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 18 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 19 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 20 | By then he had already been ‘ discovered ’ and had been taken up by two well-known Cornishmen , Sir Charles Lemon of Truro and J.T. Treffrey of Fowey . |
| 21 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 22 | We know , for example , that at Kingston-upon-Hull fewer than half the building plots in the royal town had been taken up by 1320 , a generation after the original planning . |
| 23 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 24 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 25 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 26 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 27 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 28 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 29 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 30 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |