Example sentences of "taken [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 2 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 3 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
| 4 | Red Riding Hood could conceivably be taken in by an Irish Setter . |
| 5 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 6 | It was given an injection against shock and pain and it was taken away by a rejoicing owner . |
| 7 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 8 | taken over by a new generation … which welcomes the unemphatic , the intimate and the affectionate as the creative product of our limitations . |
| 9 | In 1988 , however , the MSC was disbanded as a separate , semi-autonomous organisation , and its functions were taken over by a new section set up within the Department of Employment , originally called the Training Agency but later renamed the Training , Enterprise and Education Division . |
| 10 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 11 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 12 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 13 | The parachute service was due to be taken over by a civilian operation when the base closes in the Autumn . |
| 14 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 15 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 16 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 17 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 20 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 21 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 22 | But the cautious words of the politicians were taken further by an impatient crowd , demanding : ‘ Helmut and Hans , make Germany one again . ’ |
| 23 | A fire broke out in her ammunition hold and the crew were taken off by an attendant destroyer . |
| 24 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 25 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 26 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 27 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 28 | More important , if your machine is good enough it could be taken up by a commercial firm and go into production . |
| 29 | For its catalogue cover , Christie 's chose a painting by a Colombian , Fernando Botero , called ‘ The Dancers ’ , much of which is taken up by a corpulent woman 's behind . |
| 30 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |