Example sentences of "was [adv] taken [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 2 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 3 | He later asked Scott to design a suburb of working-class housing , known as Akroydon , near Halifax , which was eventually taken over by Scott 's former pupil W. H. Crossland . |
| 4 | One wall was wholly taken up with books while the other walls were hung with home-produced charts in which numbers and symbols formed elaborate geometrical patterns . |
| 5 | A taste for wearing amber was widely taken up among allied groups in south Germany and north Italy , at the head of the Adriatic . |
| 6 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 7 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 8 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 9 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 10 | As such it was eagerly taken up by newly enfranchised members of Roman society . |
| 11 | On early computers sets of subroutines to perform these manipulations were provided , but the task was soon taken over by hardware . |
| 12 | It was as early as 1932 that Lincoln Kirstein 's subsequently very famous appraisal of Cagney as ‘ the first definitely metropolitan figure to become national ’ appeared and this particular theme was soon taken up in newspapers through America and Britain . |
| 13 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 14 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 15 | Following worldwide use of the oral vaccine , 's time was largely taken up in visiting various countries around the world and action as an adviser to the polio vaccination programme . |
| 16 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 17 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |
| 18 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 19 | The concept was quickly taken up by others , notably Emile Wenz , then by William Eddy and Gilbert Totton Woglom who took photographs of the American cities of Boston and New York in 1895/ 6 . |
| 20 | Amidst a blaze of publicity , the resolution was quickly taken up by student bodies all over the country . |
| 21 | The present Clanna Weir House was formerly the main card mill and one of the other mill buildings was later taken over as a saw mill , power coming from a water turbine powered by waters channelled from the ponds above the site . |
| 22 | In the late 1930s , however , the Club failed and was later taken over by C.A.V. |
| 23 | The mill was later taken over by the cloth producers , Woolwark and Bird , a concern that also occupied a number of other mills . |
| 24 | It was later taken over by Holderness RDC and used as offices . |
| 25 | Loveless 's cause was also taken up by defenders ranging from William Cobbett and Edward Bulwer Lytton ( later first Baron Lytton ) to Joseph Hume and Daniel O'Connell [ qq.v . ] . |
| 26 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 27 | Her attention was solely taken up with Maggie and Felipe . |
| 28 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 29 | The rest of the room was mainly taken up by filing cabinets and the desk behind which Himmler sat , working through a file . |
| 30 | This portfolio was provisionally taken over by Deputy Prime Minister Claudio Martelli , pending the appointment of a successor . |