Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] take over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar numbers of people are expected to join YT schemes each year until 1992–3 , but as employers progressively take over from the government , its annual expenditure on YT is expected to fall — to some 760 million in 1992–3 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.5 ) . |
| 2 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 3 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 4 | Those responsibilities not taken over by the newly privatised gas , petroleum and electricity industries are expected to be handed over to existing departments such as Trade and Industry and Environment . |
| 5 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 6 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 7 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 8 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |