Example sentences of "take [adv prt] by the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 2 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 3 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 4 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 5 | The jail was the scene of a hunger strike during the War of Independence after it was taken over by the military authorities in 1915 . |
| 6 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 7 | By the late twenties and early thirties , ‘ bus travel had taken over most of this lucrative Friday traffic ; Basfords of Towcester ran two ‘ buses and The Buckingham Orange did two return journeys from Buckingham with Jelley 's of Cosgrove , the latter two being taken over by the United Counties Bus Company in the mid-1930s . |
| 8 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 9 | The Fraternity was disbanded , but many of its ideas and methods have been taken up by the new women 's organizations formed in the 1970s . |
| 10 | It was taken up by the Hellenistic astronomers , became the standard astronomical system of reference in the Middle Ages , and was even used by Copernicus in his lunar and planetary tables . |
| 11 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 12 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |