Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 2 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 3 | A small firm may feel vulnerable and unable to compete effectively and look to be taken over , though with an agreement that those of its partners who do not retire should be taken on by the new firm . |
| 4 | Designed as a ‘ fun ’ aeroplane it first flew in 1934 or 1935 , subsequently being taken on by the Soviet Air Force as the standard advanced trainer for fighter pilots with production totalling 1,241 by early 1940 . |
| 5 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 6 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 7 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
| 8 | Red Riding Hood could conceivably be taken in by an Irish Setter . |
| 9 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 10 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 11 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
| 12 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 13 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 14 | He knew that Wells had gone to the police and , in a public-spirited way , had volunteered a written statement that was taken down by the acting Sergeant , yet a statement which the police had not presented . |
| 15 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 16 | But though the relationship , when satisfactory , is relatively straightforward and works as would be expected when any large organization is taken over by a new and competent managing director , there are other cases where problems can arise . |
| 17 | taken over by a new generation … which welcomes the unemphatic , the intimate and the affectionate as the creative product of our limitations . |
| 18 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 19 | In 1988 , however , the MSC was disbanded as a separate , semi-autonomous organisation , and its functions were taken over by a new section set up within the Department of Employment , originally called the Training Agency but later renamed the Training , Enterprise and Education Division . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Upon accession taking effect , the total debts of the central budget of the GDR which have accumulated up to this date shall be taken over by a federal Special Fund without legal capacity , which will meet the obligations arising from debt servicing . |
| 21 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 22 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 23 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 24 | The parachute service was due to be taken over by a civilian operation when the base closes in the Autumn . |
| 25 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 26 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 27 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 28 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 29 | More recently , the question has been raised as to whether it is contrary to the public interest for a private company to be taken over by a foreign state-owned company , given the privatization objectives of the UK government . |
| 30 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |