Example sentences of "take [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 2 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 3 | Students also provide a substantial share of the summer staff taken on by holiday camps , at least for that part of the season which coincides with college vacations . |
| 4 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 5 | In addition , two colleagues in naval intelligence had recently been taken on by ICI to be trained as work study officers , and spoke enthusiastically to me of how they were treated by the company . |
| 6 | But , in fact , in the same way as the very ambitious career woman of today risks becoming detached from her home surroundings , so it must have been extremely difficult in the past for upper-class ladies , running homes that were full of servants , to put personal qualities into the home when all the physical work was taken on by others . |
| 7 | If our patients have problems we can not cope with , we usually say so ; we may then simply advise going elsewhere , or we may act as advocates to ensure that the issues are properly taken on by others . |
| 8 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 9 | On the following day the portfolio was taken on by Ali Bozer , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State currently responsible for Turkey 's relations with the European Communities . |
| 10 | ( Chairing the meetings rests with the house manager , but at Washington Street this is soon to be taken on by residents . ) |
| 11 | Three senior ministers departed from economic posts , notably the Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Denis Bra Kanon , whose responsibilities were taken on by Water and Forest Resources Minister Vincent Pierre Lokrou , a Cabinet member since 1986 . |
| 12 | Not all the Redmond employees were taken on by Sigma . |
| 13 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 14 | The job of putting the Ryal International Pavillion , Llangollen on the Map has been taken on by Carolyn Brindle who has been appointed administrator . |
| 15 | Winter and the new Food and Beverage manager had considered that the best applicant was a female graduate with a proven record and innovative ideas , but there was opposition from the Head Chef and the rest of the ‘ old guard ’ , who contacted the previous owner : he in turn had spoken to David Edwards , who had rung Winter and suggested ‘ cooling it ’ ( the disappointed applicant had subsequently been taken on by Duchy 's expanding Hotels Division ) . |
| 16 | Most of Grampian 's sales staff will be taken on by TVMM , and the group expects to make savings through increased usage of resources such as research , computers and office space . |
| 17 | The appointments are the first non-executives taken on by Lowndes since its highly leveraged takeover of Harris Queensway last year . |
| 18 | They have seen their work taken on by people with different motivations and agendas. and fear that such disparity must weaken both impact and cohesion of purpose . |
| 19 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 20 | She 'd been taken on by Harman almost as — well yes , his protégé really . |
| 21 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 22 | Eighteen trainees have been taken on by BP Norway to gain practical experience on the Ula and Gyda fields . |
| 23 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 24 | Many of them admit it 's the most dangerous mission ever taken on by UN forces . |
| 25 | The Education and Religious Affairs portfolios were taken on by Giorgios Souflias , hitherto the Economy and Tourism Minister ; the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , took over the Economy portfolio , while Yannis Kefaloyannis was appointed Tourism Minister . |
| 26 | Indeed I wonder whether they will have the time to perform all the many tasks taken on by police authority members , including lay-visiting of police cells attending national committees on a number of subjects or local consultative bodies , there 's a whole list of duties and responsibilities which members of police authorities undertake . |
| 27 | How could she ever have been taken in by Nigel Westwood ? |
| 28 | She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention . |
| 29 | It is blatantly obvious here that Mitch has been taken in by Blanche 's deception . |
| 30 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |