Example sentences of "over by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Convoys half a mile long are watched over by scattered Afghan army outposts on the hills by the road . |
| 5 | There was a carnival atmosphere , with stalls and sideshows to tempt the hired men and women to part with money handed over by new employers to seal the bargain . |
| 6 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 7 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dowty taken over by TI Group |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 12 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 13 | Macedonia , lying across the southern end of the Vardar-Morava corridor which connects the central Danubian lowlands to the Aegean coasts , has always been fought over by rival powers . |
| 14 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 15 | A certain area of the water surface can be allowed to be covered over by floating plants , especially if certain plants preferring shade or poor light conditions are grown . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 20 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 21 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 22 | At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 28 | Optical-fibre cable kinked , snarled in bushes , run over by other vehicles too short to reach control centre . |
| 29 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 30 | Misty green valleys , shot through with rushing vodka-clear rivers ; emerald rice-paddies fringed with golden stands of bamboo , and primary forest towered over by soaring escarpments of granite . |