Example sentences of "[adv] taken over [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 2 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 3 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 4 | The mill was later taken over by the cloth producers , Woolwark and Bird , a concern that also occupied a number of other mills . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now , the main lodging house in Ipswich was afterwards taken over by the Salvation Army Hostel . |