Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 2 | Seventy five percent is taken in through the eyes of which we 're gon na recall about fifty percent , so fifty percent of that seventy five percent yeah ? |
| 3 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 4 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 5 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 6 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 7 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 8 | The convent was in the protection of St Sophia and the church was dedicated to her , but changed its dedication when the building was taken over by the nuns of the Salesiane della Visitazione order . |
| 9 | Major Buckley had a colourful career as manager of Wolves in the 1930s , but it was not until Sir Matt Busby 's brilliant reign at Manchester United that the commanding role of manager after Chapman 's example was firmly taken up outside the bounds of Highbury . |
| 10 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 11 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 12 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
| 13 | She was going to insist on driving the woman away from Nice , because Barbara Coleman must be taken out of the clutches of Maurin and anybody else who interfered with her liberty . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 15 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 16 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |
| 17 | As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself . |
| 18 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 19 | We believe the special nature of this case suggests the decision should be taken out of the hands of the borough council and examined dispassionately at a public inquiry . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | Successive Governments have adopted the policy that individual decisions should be taken out of the hands of local planning authorities only if they raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 22 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 23 | The change in status means that control of the ancient woodlands is to be taken out of the hands of the Forestry Commission , who were opposed to the move , and a new governing body is to be set up along the lines of the Norfolk Broads Authority . |
| 24 | Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole . |
| 25 | Sources indicated yesterday that the pricing process had been taken out of the hands of Scottish management . |
| 26 | It is therefore argued that the operation of monetary policy should be taken out of the hands of the government which is politically motivated and into the hands of the Central Bank , which is neutral but has a reputation to uphold ( such a situation exists in Germany , with the Bundesbank deciding on monetary policy ) . |
| 27 | Once again the world of the sands and holidays was left far behind as the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine and the committee members of the Literary Lionisers , together with such other Lionisers as could squeeze into the room allotted to them in police headquarters , were once again taken back over the events of last Saturday night . |
| 28 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 29 | That the Hall was sometimes used as a refuge for recusants and fugitive priests was the subject of frequent speculation among the fishermen who gathered in Mother Russell 's alehouse , but if some knew more than others , they were n't saying : no one could ever be sure , after all , whether Elizabeth might one day be toppled by Queen Mary of Scotland , and England taken back into the arms of Rome all over again . |