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 business rate has been taken away from local authorities , and in London that accounted for about £2 billion of income . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 6 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 7 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 8 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 9 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 10 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 13 | It contained an acknowledgment that its decision to close Village school had been taken primarily on financial grounds . |
| 14 | ‘ Profligate spending has not only driven employers and would-be employers away and thus lost jobs , but resources have been taken away from other areas by the rate support grant formula as the spiral of inner city decline causes the rate base in inner city areas to diminish , while their needs … grow ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
| 16 | As we shall see , both options have been taken up in subsequent thinking . |