Example sentences of "[vb -s] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern Europe chills down and while it 's often dry , snow starts taking over from rain . |
| 2 | Because somebody else has took over . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 4 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 5 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 6 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 7 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 8 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 9 | MATSUSHITA has taken over Office Workstations Ltd , OWL , a £2 million British software house and a world leader in hypertext systems . |
| 10 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 11 | With its departure and the collapse of the junk market , no one else has taken over the role . |
| 12 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 13 | The domestic dairy has taken over our social diary . |
| 14 | Bracknell reserve team manager Martin Benford has taken over first-team duties until the end of the season . |
| 15 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 16 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , who epitomises the ‘ caring ’ face of Conservatism , has taken over as Health Secretary , with the task of reassuring the public and the health professions that Mr Major does not intend to privatise the National Health Service . |
| 17 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 18 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 19 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 20 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 21 | In the Auvergne , the major agriculture/conservation conflict is clearly in the plains , especially the extensive limagne north of Clermont , where intensive cereal and crop production has taken over from a former bocage ( hedge and pasture ) landscape . |
| 22 | The structure of the society , too , may vary from a large extended family system where care for all dependants — the young , the elderly , the mentally handicapped , the ill — is shared , to the small nuclear family , typical of the Western world , where often the state has taken over many of the traditional caring activities of the family , with their attendant safety aspects . |
| 23 | His one kidney has taken over ! ’ |
| 24 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 25 | The computer has taken over . |
| 26 | AN ATMOSPHERE of excitement mingled with a fair amount of caution and some controversy has taken over CERN , Europe 's centre near Geneva for research into subatomic particles . |
| 27 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 28 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 29 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 30 | Elastogran Polyurethane 's machine construction division , a subsidiary of BASF , has taken over the polyurethane technology product sector of Kloeckner Ferromatik Desma . |