Example sentences of "[adj] take over the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Oldham Magistrates granted summonses against Brady and Hindley for the murder of the child following a private application , the Director , having already decided that in all the circumstances it would not be in the public interest to institute proceedings against them , used his statutory powers under Section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to take over the conduct of the case and to discontinue it under Section 23 . |
| 2 | To a great extent eyes are able to take over the function of keeping us upright because we are able to orientate ourselves by seeing our own position in relation to the world around . |
| 3 | He left school at the age of fourteen to follow the same trade , and two years later in 1835 took over the management of a boat-building yard at Lincoln which his father had acquired . |
| 4 | As established in exploratory talks which took place in January-March 1990 , a major obstacle to the achievement of the EES in the forthcoming negotiations with the EC was EFTA 's demand for equal status with the EC in a joint decision-making body , particularly sought by Switzerland which was due to take over the presidency of EFTA on July 1 . |
| 5 | Lynda , a former teacher who has worked as a deaconess in Ayrshire , Edinburgh and Fort William and whose most recent church appointment was a centre warden at Iona Abbey , had been due to take over the lease of Key House , next to Falkland Palace , in July but the property became vacant sooner than expected . |
| 6 | The son of a dentist in Glasgow , he started farming in 1920 at Carneil , Dunfermline , but moved to the Borders in 1948 to take over the tenancy of the 1860-acre farm of Cessford . |
| 7 | Thanx mussed also go to the Mitchley Road Primary Skool printing clubb four taking over the produckshun of owr programe . |
| 8 | POULTON ROYAL took over the leadership of the Wallasey Sunday League second division after recording a splendid 3-2 victory over Harvest . |
| 9 | Changez did n't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores . |