Example sentences of "[been] take [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well converted market building can inject new life into a whole area : Covent Garden is the classic example , where all the former premises of fruit and vegetable wholesalers around the market have been taken over as shops , wine bars and restaurants . |
| 2 | The Ford New Holland dealership in the Taunton , Somerset , area has been taken over by Jewells , part of the Kellands group . |
| 3 | Most shops and herds have been taken over by families or collectives . |
| 4 | This was the very fringe of his parish , that part that would never become residentially ‘ desirable ’ because it was too near the railway , and many of the big gaunt houses had been taken over by families of West Indians . |
| 5 | Imagine that when you come home from a holiday , your house has been taken over by squatters . |
| 6 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
| 7 | Sue Rorstad , who built up her Poppies firm into one of the region 's most successful companies , says the town has been taken over by drunks and thieves . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've lost many of our localised products because they 've been taken over by multi-nationals . |
| 9 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 10 | Is it not also a fact that , because industries in the north and north-west and other such places have increasingly been taken over by industries based in the south , the north has always been last for investment and first for cuts ? |
| 11 | They 're all covered with smoke and grime left over from before they passed the Clean Air Bill , and the only place that might once have looked good is the Methodist Chapel at Southwark that 's been taken over by Fundamentalists . |
| 12 | Peter Northfield , public affairs manager for the Great Eastern division of BR 's Network SouthEast , said some commuters were angry because they normally used the carriage which had been taken over by protesters . |
| 13 | Another revealed that the last of the Callanish eagles was gone for ‘ that place too has been taken over by Men who put to death what eagles they find . |
| 14 | On Feb. 25 Lamouri said that the Religious Affairs Ministry hoped to appoint new imams to about 40 per cent of the country 's 9,073 mosques , many of which , he said , had been taken over by individuals not competent to preach . |
| 15 | Meditation , yoga , and psychotherapy have all been taken up by Westerners as ways of helping themselves cope , and give meaning to their lives . |
| 16 | The best performer in Wise Speke 's half dozen to follow is Darlington-based engineering group which last week announced that 93.9pc of the recent rights issue had been taken up by shareholders . |
| 17 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 18 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |