Example sentences of "been taken [adv prt] by [art] " 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 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 7 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 8 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 9 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 10 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 11 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 12 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 13 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 14 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 15 | Has been taken over by a stagecoach . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 23 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 24 | ( 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 . ) |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She withdrew because her case has been taken over by the local authority , her solicitor Alistair Babbington said . |
| 28 | On nationalisation this small research staff , under a refugee from Nazi Germany , Paul Schiller , had been taken over by the BEA 's commercial department . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |