Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 2 | At the Russian Supreme Soviet session on Feb. 13 it was announced that responsibility for farm reform would be taken on by Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , whose public criticism of Yeltsin 's economic reform had become increasingly sharp over previous weeks . |
| 3 | Do not be taken in by current usage . |
| 4 | Anyone considering a purchase from this company should make sure they get cast-iron guarantees concerning specification and after sales support or , like me and many others to my knowledge , they will wish that they had not been taken in by misleading advertising and had paid a little more money to an established British company . |
| 5 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 6 | The target of the revolutionary writer 's attentions is a reading public readily and willingly collaborating in its own mystifications , yet retaining at heart a desire for cultural enlightenment and refusing adamantly to be patronised or taken in by glib and misguided preaching . |
| 7 | He was sometimes taken in by unscrupulous petitioners . |
| 8 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |
| 9 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 10 | After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex . |
| 11 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 12 | Basketball was all but taken over by black players ; grid-iron football became a platform for such star performers as Jim Brown and O. J. Simpson and baseball , to a lesser extent , absorbed many black players of distinction , including Hank Aaron and Willie Mays , the number one and number three leading home-run hitters , after Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar in 1947 . |
| 13 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 14 | So only the police , army and ‘ bureaucracy ’ would be dismantled by the representatives of the proletariat , leaving the registration and accounting work of banks , factories , academies , syndicates , experimental stations , and other institutions to be taken over by proletarian soviets . |
| 15 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 16 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 17 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 18 | Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators . |
| 19 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 20 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 21 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 22 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 23 | Dowty taken over by TI Group |
| 24 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |
| 25 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 26 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 27 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 28 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 29 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 30 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |