Example sentences of "is take [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 5 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 6 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 7 | 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram . |
| 8 | Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine . |
| 9 | When a road is taken over by the local authority there are usually substantial charges to be paid , but often , in the case of estate roads , the developers have accepted responsibility and entered into a bond with the local authority to secure their liability . |
| 10 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 11 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 12 | Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin — ah yes , but one with a broken string . |
| 13 | For its catalogue cover , Christie 's chose a painting by a Colombian , Fernando Botero , called ‘ The Dancers ’ , much of which is taken up by a corpulent woman 's behind . |
| 14 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 15 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 16 | But most of the length is taken up by the cabin and since the Twingo is taller than a Sierra its packaging prowess is , perhaps , easier to appreciate . |
| 17 | My free time is taken up by the hairdresser and manicurist — and if I do escape them , I have to be fitted at the dressmaker 's . |
| 18 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 19 | Now that we have the front bed working and set to knit , the yarn that is not taken into the slip needle hook no longer forms a float , but is taken up by the opposite needle and is knitted whilst the slip needle still retains its original knitted stitch . |
| 20 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 21 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 22 | A hard disk is required with almost 16Mb of hard disk available ( some 6Mb is taken up by the opening sequence which can be removed ) , and it may be necessary to allow the program to make its own boot disk if you do not have enough available memory . |
| 23 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 24 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 25 | As the dog does so , he is taken down by a snatch on the lead . |
| 26 | Again , he is taken down by a very firm snatch of the lead . |