Example sentences of "[was/were] taken [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 3 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 4 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 5 | It was pleasing to note that many recommendations made by our Agriculture Working Party were taken up in the scheme . |
| 6 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 7 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 8 | And when the other cows were taken out in the morning and brought home in the evening , it stood there without even turning its head . |
| 9 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 10 | In 1849–51 an annual average of 191 agriculture patents were taken out in the United States ; in 1859–61 , 1,282 ; in 1869–71 , no less than 3,217 . |
| 11 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 12 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 13 | This notion was taken up in the model proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ( and developed by Hall and Pearce ( 1982 ) , and by Pearce , Kaye , and Hall ( 1982 ) ) , which was presented originally as an account of classical conditioning . |
| 14 | This coupling of social insurance with a safety net of means-tested benefits was taken up in the Beveridge Plan which settled the framework of the welfare state after the Second World War ( Beveridge , 1942 ) . |
| 15 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 16 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 17 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |