Example sentences of "been taken by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their place has been taken by a row of ‘ Argenta ’ leeks raised in the seed bed and dibbled into 6in holes spaced about a foot apart . |
| 2 | During the night a score of lambs had been born ; several had died ( most of hypothermia ) and at least one had been taken by a fox . |
| 3 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 4 | Of these the most dramatic had been taken by a Ramallah lawyer , Aziz Shehadeh , who had already demonstrated his independent thinking in 1948 as a leading spirit in the Ramallah Congress of Refugee Delegates ( see above pp. 83–5 ) . |
| 5 | The car is unnumbered , suggesting that its number might have been taken by a new Standard car . |
| 6 | They said that the incident had taken place in Belfast and that the photograph had been taken by a night camera . |
| 7 | This has now been taken by a full scale ‘ mock-up ’ nose cone of a Trans-Manche Super Train ( TMST ) . |
| 8 | In the event , this second option was not chosen by the French Government , but has been taken by a majority of Contracting States . |
| 9 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |
| 10 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 11 | It had been taken by a colleague at a WTN cricket match and had captured his lovely f-ace and warm smile . |
| 12 | ‘ I could not understand why , if Allingham had been taken by a seizure , he had not tried to open the door , turn the key and call for help . |
| 13 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 14 | Apparently , she had been taken by an Ixmaritian academy as part of a tax levied against her family , whose crops had suffered a blight one year and who were in severe financial hardship . |
| 15 | However , there is no reported case in which this point has been taken by an employer in order to argue that the special approach is not always applicable ; it may be that the special approach is so entrenched in judicial thinking that even an employer who is able to demonstrate that the factual bases for the special approach do not exist in the instant case will not succeed in persuading the court to abandon it . |
| 16 | Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions . |
| 17 | In 1984 , when his successful playing career still had a few years to run , and his gambler 's mantle had been taken by the rugged striker Alan Brazil , Macari moved into management with Swindon Town . |
| 18 | Significant moves to achieve this have already been taken by the Library Association , including , as we have seen , its efforts to amend Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 . |
| 19 | Where all these steps have been taken by the balance sheet date , the cost of the redundancy programme will be reflected in the accounts for the year . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu 's family and favourites have gone , but their places have generally been taken by the prominent figures of the new regime — some of whom have not had to move far . |
| 21 | Where was he , had he been taken by the constables ? |
| 22 | Now it is probably extinct as a breeding bird in Shetland , and its place has been taken by the reed bunting . |
| 23 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 24 | A small step in this direction had already been taken by the Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908 , a response to a long-standing Liberal interest in the land question . |
| 25 | Completely the wrong approach had been taken by the Government . |
| 26 | The disease is , however , attended by secondary symptoms , the well known purging and vomiting which , because they are so dramatic , have frequently been taken by the inept as indicating the primary seat of the infection … |
| 27 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was there I was given a copy of a US Senate foreign relations report which alleged that a large number of British POWs from the Second World War had disappeared in Soviet hands , and that a number of United Nations troops had been taken by the Soviets from the Chinese during the Korean War and never returned . |
| 29 | Which view has been taken by the courts with regard to Donoghue v. Stevenson ? |
| 30 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |