Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 2 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 3 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 4 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 5 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 6 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 7 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 8 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 9 | As regards Monktonhall mineworkers ' consortium , it is encouraging that a group of ex-mineworkers have applied to British Coal to take over the pit , and I hope that they can make a success of it . |
| 10 | The injunction began a saga that was to run for two months , as Virgin scrabbled to find another bank to take over the role played in the lease agreement by Chemical . |
| 11 | Seventy pupils from Clacton County High School took over the council chambers of Tendring District Council at Weeley recently to film their entry for the Citizenship Foundation Youth Parliament Competition . |
| 12 | If a guest loses a key card or another guest takes over the room a new key card with new code punch holes is issued . |
| 13 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 14 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
| 15 | The UAB provided a model that enabled central government to take over the functions of the poor law agencies . |
| 16 | In 1889 the new Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway took over the lines and Melton was further developed as the new Committee 's locomotive building and repair centre . |
| 17 | No woman has ever before become the ruler of Scotland and there are mutterings about the old Celtic tradition that when a king died the closest male relative took over the reins of power . |
| 18 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Poor Law ’ became ‘ Public Assistance ’ , and under the terms of the Act , Bedfordshire County Council set up a standing committee under that name to take over the functions of the former Board of Guardians . |
| 20 | In retrospect , it appears that Senghor 's strategy was first to reconfirm that his party and its policies continued to have support from the Senegalese people , by giving them real alternatives , and then to enable a young and clearly competent successor to take over the leadership of both the party and the government . |
| 21 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 22 | This implies that in time the antisemitic ideology will disappear , as a young post-war generation takes over the leadership of the far right . |
| 23 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 24 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 25 | They required a large number of available sons and daughters , but there was no shortage of these , and hence — unlike among the French peasantry which required one and only one heir to take over the family holding — no strong incentive to birth control , except among the poor and struggling lower middle class . |
| 26 | Her compassion and kindness , rather than her stylishness , qualified her uniquely one day to take over the role of Queen . |
| 27 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 28 | The latter method may be preferred where , for cosmetic reasons , the parties wish to present the transaction as a " true " merger rather than one party taking over the other ; however , it is more unwieldy and expensive and is not often used where there is a risk of a competitive bid being made for either company . |
| 29 | On April 17 , disregarding Nguza 's order that it should refrain from any attempt to take over the running of the country , the conference adopted sovereign status , and on April 21 the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya was confirmed as chairman of the conference [ see p. 38662 for his election in December 1991 ] . |
| 30 | But with business concluded , the convention changes gear and , from Thursday on , everyone is in full motley and a gigantic free-wheeling circus takes over the town , with clowns doing their stuff along the esplanade , at the railway station , on the buses , in the streets , pubs , restaurants and takeaways , as well as under the big top and in the conference centre . |