Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had resulted in 150 companies being taken on by five multiples and a 30 per cent increase in product listings . |
| 2 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 3 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 4 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
| 5 | He was sometimes taken in by unscrupulous petitioners . |
| 6 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 16 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 17 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 18 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 21 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 22 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 23 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 28 | Sean Rickard , Chief Economist with the National Farmers ' Union ( NFU ) , admits that such a financial harvest is possible ; during the past ten years , ‘ very small farms have increased in number , but decreased in acreage , because generally middle-sized farms are being split up with part of the land sold being taken over by larger farms and part becoming smallholdings . |
| 29 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 30 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |