Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case taken on by this Firm we appoint a Supervisor who has overall responsibility to the client for the way the claim is handled . |
| 2 | Yes , er er I mean I agree with you Chairman entirely , I mean the arguments have been made before and I will just say them again , that I think the District Council are quite remiss er in asking for this sum of money , particularly in view of the reason that the , the , the field is there , which is for the recreation of the people who live in the estate , and the back end of Southwell , and it always has been , er and that is a responsibility that has been taken on by this Parish Council , and if , if , if they feel that they , they wish to persist in asking an unreasonable price , and let's face it , the District Council is in a position to look at this situation and say , the Parish Council is doing an excellent job , we will sell them this land for a figure that they can afford . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it is doubtful whether many Greeks were taken in by such propaganda . |
| 5 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
| 6 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 7 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 8 | The Homunculi are not truly intelligent , and can be taken in by any subterfuge along these lines if they fail an Int test ( which should be modified by the role-play skill of the adventurers ) . |
| 9 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
| 10 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 13 | They are like the newly swept house of which our Lord spoke which was then taken over by more spirits than before ( Matt. |
| 14 | Well , if you sent your money fairly recently , it 's probably still sitting in their offices unopened — Turbosoft still hold the lease on the building , and until it 's taken over by another company the GPO have no authority to recover and redirect mail . |
| 15 | There was not one ship permanently in command , the particular ship in most direct contact with the enemy was in command until the leading position was taken over by another ship which then assumed command as well as action . |
| 16 | If the scrip alternative is taken up by all shareholders it would result in a saving of £3.8m of ACT . |
| 17 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 18 | Allon advocated the use of chanting but this was taken up by few chapels ; the much greater growth lay in the use of hymns . |
| 19 | As in any full-blown controversy , these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight . |
| 20 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 21 | The first is the ‘ life course ’ approach which was first developed by sociologists , but has recently been taken up by some historians . |