Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three to six years later tall herbs take over ; in Sheffield we find rosebay willow-herb , tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) , wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium ) , mugwort ( A. vulgaris ) and occasionally golden rod ( Solidago canadensis ) among others . |
| 2 | Then three to six years later , tall herbs take over ( centre ) . |
| 3 | Two French Commandos take over and carry their wounded comrade the remaining part of the way ; he manages a smile as they pick him up . |
| 4 | Different companies take over , I remember that time we borrowed that four thousand pound . |
| 5 | Instead of a see-saw process as different regions take over the running , a vicious circle sets in — a process of cumulative causation — by which the places which initially take the lead generate , by that very fact , all kinds of other advantages which make their position unassailable . |
| 6 | As plants move in to colonise newly available ground different species take over from each other in a series of stages known as ‘ succession ’ . |
| 7 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 8 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 9 | The government had hoped to make the private sector take over nuclear power stations , but John Wakeham eventually had to admit that no one wanted them . |
| 10 | There will be those who just can not get into gear , who will watch the private sector take over many of the functions which have been , previously been run by local government . |
| 11 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 12 | As they close in on the prey , they thrust their talons forward and the mighty claws take over . |
| 13 | Eventually , however , the hydrogen in the core runs out and so nuclear reactions involving heavier elements take over . |
| 14 | ‘ Time for some sleep , Hari , girl , ’ she said softly , knowing that in the morning her worries would subside and her natural optimism take over once again . |
| 15 | In the close confines of the nucleus powerful forces take over , holding the protons in a tight grip and overcoming the disruptive electrical forces . |
| 16 | Only after the dissolution of the Malaysian Federation , did the Malaysian government take over control of monetary policy and reserve management from the old colonial currency board ( Strange , 1971 ) . |
| 17 | A couple of rubber trees bleed white latex into little plastic cups , and then tumbled boulders , giant ferns , lianas , ants and a million other living things take over . |
| 18 | The British also used the well-worn principle of divide and rule to run the country — keeping the Chinese and Indian settlers in Malaya from joining the Civil Service and administration which ran the country while nurturing the traditional ruling class to one day take over . |
| 19 | But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves . |
| 20 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 21 | I certainly hope they do n't get into the ball game of letting any political party or any grouping take over . |
| 22 | New authorities take over in 1996 . |
| 23 | The only relief is that some of the heads wither away as new ideas take over , so that old techniques and formats become redundant . |
| 24 | Staff working at Hartlepool 's Middleton Grange Shopping Centre have been assured that their jobs will be safe when new owners take over from the borough council . |
| 25 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
| 26 | At what point did the Labour Party take over from the Liberal Party as the second party of government ? |
| 27 | You know full well what they are : they 're those moments when Richard Heslop 's undeniably exciting monochrome , fit-inducing flashes take over . |