Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 2 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 3 | He was sometimes taken in by unscrupulous petitioners . |
| 4 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |
| 5 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 6 | A sluice system , enabling water to be taken in from external drains and retained , has finally resolved the constant threat of ‘ drying out ’ . |
| 7 | Sections were dewaxed and taken down through graded alcohols ; endogenous peroxidase activity was blocked by incubating the sections in 3% hydrogen peroxide and methanol for one hour . |
| 8 | All the large houses have been pulled down , or taken over as nursing homes . |
| 9 | This mode of relating , which starts between the mother and the infant , is taken over into subsequent situations such as enterprises , I suggest . |
| 10 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 11 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 12 | Basketball was all but taken over by black players ; grid-iron football became a platform for such star performers as Jim Brown and O. J. Simpson and baseball , to a lesser extent , absorbed many black players of distinction , including Hank Aaron and Willie Mays , the number one and number three leading home-run hitters , after Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar in 1947 . |
| 13 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 14 | So only the police , army and ‘ bureaucracy ’ would be dismantled by the representatives of the proletariat , leaving the registration and accounting work of banks , factories , academies , syndicates , experimental stations , and other institutions to be taken over by proletarian soviets . |
| 15 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 16 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 17 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 18 | Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators . |
| 19 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 20 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 21 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 22 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 23 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |
| 24 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 25 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 26 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 27 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 28 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 29 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |
| 30 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |