Example sentences of "[noun] taken over by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 2 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 3 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |
| 4 | But this is a partial explanation ; as Urry ( 1981 : 93 ) points out , not all industries taken over by the state are necessarily unprofitable in private hands ; a striking recent example would be the nationalization of some of the leading French banks and industrial conglomerates by the Mitterand government in 1982 ( Durupty 1986a : 77–119 ) . |
| 5 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |