Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 8 | As they close in on the prey , they thrust their talons forward and the mighty claws take over . |
| 9 | In the close confines of the nucleus powerful forces take over , holding the protons in a tight grip and overcoming the disruptive electrical forces . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | New authorities take over in 1996 . |
| 13 | The only relief is that some of the heads wither away as new ideas take over , so that old techniques and formats become redundant . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
| 16 | You know full well what they are : they 're those moments when Richard Heslop 's undeniably exciting monochrome , fit-inducing flashes take over . |