Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] taken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 2 | The castle of Poli , which dominated the north of the Campagna , and its fiefs were slowly taken over . |
| 3 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 4 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 5 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 6 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 7 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 8 | He bought companies for cash , raised by issuing shares that were largely taken up by financial institutions . |
| 9 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 10 | Academically , the School prospered : Thomas Ashe was given a special Exhibition at St. John 's College , Cambridge ( the other two were already taken up ) , and when Howell died in August 1858 Mr. C. E. Norris , an Old Boy and a previous Goldsmiths ' Exhibitioner at St. John 's College , Cambridge , was appointed to take over . |
| 11 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 12 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 13 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 14 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 15 | The remainder , with the exception of the woman with the dislocated jaw and the man with the angina attack , were mainly suffering from severe shock and were quickly taken out to the ambulances . |
| 16 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 17 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 18 | TP280 and TP298 were both taken on charge RAF in mid 1945 and independently shipped to Air Command South East Asia at Karachi . |
| 19 | It was a costly night against Motherwell , however , because Richard Gough and Trevor Steven were both taken off after suffering groin injuries which will cast doubt on their availability for the immediate future . |
| 20 | The Station Chief said , ‘ Harry had a contact with him — they were both taken out … |
| 21 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 22 | The number of arrests went up to 46 when the partners of those arrested were also taken in by police . |
| 23 | P3731 ( which had arrived from ‘ Argus ’ with 418 Flight in August 1940 ) and V7370 ( which had arrived during the ill-fated second reinforcement flight in November of that year ) reached Palestine , and were later taken on charge by the newly-formed 127 Squadron . |
| 24 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 25 | Pregnant single women , for example , were often taken in until after the birth . |
| 26 | Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial . |
| 27 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 28 | Where a council had a plain political majority , educational decisions were now taken on party lines . |
| 29 | Dust from such holes sprinkled down upon the drillers and considerable amounts were inevitably taken in by their vigorous inhalations as they laboured . |
| 30 | It also became commonplace for boys to request , and be granted , extensions to their stay in the School , and the Exhibitions to Oxford and Cambridge on offer from the Company were regularly taken up . |