Example sentences of "been take [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 2 | Children have been taken on by the Institute and given trial periods . |
| 3 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 4 | Aware that he had been taken on by the college as part of a programme of reform , Minton told Edie Lamont : ‘ They have inaugurated a drive to bring it in line with what they call Contemporary Trends . |
| 5 | The mail-order scheme for cycle helmets run by the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has now been taken on by the ‘ Hard Helmet Scheme ’ . |
| 6 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 7 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 8 | They will tell you of problems in the area , forthcoming planning proposals , tree preservation orders , which of the drains have been taken over by the Council , road and transport problems , pollution , public rights of way , and so on . |
| 9 | The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 . |
| 10 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 11 | TAP ( Training Access Points ) systems of user-friendly computer terminals located in libraries , shopping centres , careers offices and businesses — has been taken over by the TEC and is the focal point of a marketing campaign to extend career opportunities . |
| 12 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 13 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 14 | ( This helps to explain why so many English liberals ceased to support France when they heard that Paris had been taken over by the ‘ mob ’ in 1793 . ) |
| 15 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 16 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 17 | She withdrew because her case has been taken over by the local authority , her solicitor Alistair Babbington said . |
| 18 | On nationalisation this small research staff , under a refugee from Nazi Germany , Paul Schiller , had been taken over by the BEA 's commercial department . |
| 19 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 20 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 21 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Since the 1950s , many of these functions have been taken over by the record producer . |
| 23 | The tasteful domain of the unknown Kettering children , with its bright bedspreads , art reproductions and posters from exhibitions in Florence , had been taken over by the Pargeters , who would soon reduce it to a tip . |
| 24 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 25 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 26 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 27 | In April a Sejm-appointed commission investigating the assets of the former PUWP and its allies revealed that some 1,866 of the PUWP 's 1900 buildings had been taken over by the government . |
| 28 | Since 1989 almost 700 S&Ls had been taken over by the RTC . |
| 29 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 30 | But Alistair had quit , and the beano had been taken over by the only Tory rich enough to take his place : Jeffrey Archer . |