Example sentences of "been taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 2 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 3 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 4 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 5 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 6 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 7 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 8 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 9 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 10 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 11 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 12 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 13 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 14 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 15 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 16 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 17 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 18 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 19 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 20 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 21 | But Alistair had quit , and the beano had been taken over by the only Tory rich enough to take his place : Jeffrey Archer . |
| 22 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 27 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 28 | She withdrew because her case has been taken over by the local authority , her solicitor Alistair Babbington said . |
| 29 | You will commonly , of course , advise your client of any facts of interest , which you have discovered by your enquiries ; for example , that the road has not yet been taken over by the local authority , that plans for building on the property were submitted to and rejected by the local authority , etc . |
| 30 | Most days have been taken up with the unreported routine of minor incidents occurring twice or three times a day : suspect devices , random gun shots and the like . |