Example sentences of "[adj] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 2 | In ‘ turn-taking ’ terms , it is a point at which another speaker is free to take over . |
| 3 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 4 | Why not ? ) must be prepared to take over should the process break down . |
| 5 | Minority shareholder and OEM partner Hewlett-Packard Co says it is prepared to take over Sequoia 's project to develop a fault-tolerant Precision Architecture RISC-based machine . |
| 6 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |
| 7 | No-one else seemed disposed to take over , in spite of ‘ ads ’ in this magazine , so the whole situation stagnated . |
| 8 | BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ . |
| 9 | McElroy 's job — and that of most of the other 1100 people who work for NESDIS — would disappear if he discovers that firms are willing to take over . |
| 10 | Even so , with at least two American tournaments lacking name sponsors at the time of writing and the LTA 's anxious search for a company willing to take over the men 's autumn indoor event in Birmingham , are we , I wonder , starting to see the icy blow of reality infiltrating a sport which , for so long , has seemed immune from the impact of any recession ? |
| 11 | In such a situation the purchaser will normally be willing to take over the vendor 's liabilities up to a specified maximum or as specifically itemised in completion accounts . |
| 12 | To a large extent this is merely one example of the preceding factor , namely that the purchaser is not willing to take over all the liabilities of the company . |
| 13 | One of the issues to be resolved between the vendor and purchaser is the question of whether the purchaser is willing to take over either of the debtors or creditors of the business or whether one or both of these will remain with the vendor after completion of the sale . |
| 14 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 15 | With regular centre-forward Kelvin Simple taking over duties in goal , the City Reserves had only four players left on the park . |
| 16 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 17 | The tribute will feature a preview of his latest work , Monkeyshines , a characteristically disturbing psychological chiller about a paraplegic taken over by his pet ape , at the Cannon at 8pm tomorrow , and an all-night retrospective of his celebrated exercises in subversive horror , Night Of The Living Dead , Dawn Of The Dead , and Day Of The Dead at the the Hyde Park Picture House , Brudenell Road from 11pm tomorrow . |
| 18 | I was delighted to take over with the CIT in the UK in such good heart , locally and nationally , thanks to the initiatives set up by my predecessors being so well supported by the Uk Board , as well as Section Chairman and their committees . |
| 19 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
| 20 | If energy saving is applied rigorously in homes and industry and the power stations clean up their act by switching from coal to other fuels or otherwise cutting their carbon emissions , transport seems set to take over as the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in Western industrialized countries . |
| 21 | Macari looks set to take over at Parkhead by the end of the week . |
| 22 | The guidelines sent to the the county council reveal that up to 400 ministry of defence officials are on standby to take over . |
| 23 | Tell me , in the lease as originally drawn up would you be able to let my client know whether there was specific reference to the controversy over the dustbins or did this develop after the Maltese took over ? ’ |
| 24 | Not every clinical condition will be managed efficiently in the district general hospitals which are supposed to take over from us . |
| 25 | Nature is supposed to take over , like the automatic pilot on an aeroplane . |
| 26 | A brewery is fighting a hostile take over bid which would mean the end of more than two hundred and fifty years of brewing . |
| 27 | In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume . |
| 28 | The history unfolds with the full scale introduction of motor vehicles following the First World War and the gradual take over of all delivery services . |
| 29 | But while Underwood looks sure to take over from his retired brother , Rory , team manager Geoff Cooke warned : |
| 30 | With the comic appearance of this modern barbarian the resolutely physical takes over ; we move back to the level of the naked man with no interest in the ‘ polymath ’ . |