Example sentences of "is take [adv prt] by the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram .
3 Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine .
4 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 .
5 Dowty is taken over by the TI Group
6 Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school .
10 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 .
11 A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences .
12 Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady .
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