Example sentences of "it take over " in BNC.

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1 Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them .
2 Next year , it takes over from Glasgow as cultural capital of a new , ever evolving Europe , with rock and roll as its main commodity and export .
3 If the nucleic acid core enters a living cell , it takes over the metabolism of that cell , so that the viral DNA is copied , and viral coat proteins , coded for by the genes of the virus , are synthesized .
4 Suddenly it takes over — uncontrollably , they lash out and then flee in panic , their ancient memory switching them from Jekyll to Hyde .
5 The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites .
6 The group has splashed out on a string of new programmes to be shown when it takes over from Thames next month .
7 Situated in Hind Cove , it takes over two hours to reach from Wasdale .
8 It will be interesting to see if Novell comes to any of the same business decisions once it takes over .
9 When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem .
10 When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command .
11 It takes over , ’ he says .
12 The North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust has told 51 of the 719-strong workforce at three Ayrshire hospitals , which it takes over next week , that their fixed , short-term contracts will not be renewed on 31 March .
13 Well we wo n't be able to eat it then , it takes over night to set .
14 So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings .
15 It 's only if you let it take over your life that it 's wrong . ’
16 I know from experience that fear can be handled if you refuse to let it take over .
17 The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden .
18 Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago .
19 It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August .
20 WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago .
21 It took over an hour to negotiate the couple of miles to the hotel and only then because , in exasperation , I ignored all rules of good driving not to mention half-a-dozen laws , and made my way blithely down a one-way street ( the wrong way , of course ) and down a ( prohibited ) tram-only lane .
22 The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year .
23 It took over from the Cortina as the best DIY car around , and its high build quality ensures public loyalty .
24 It took over a year of counselling and treatment to restore Renate to a semblance of ordinary life .
25 It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne
26 Mr Berry built up Blue Arrow from the small staff recruitment and travel operation he acquired in June 1982 into the world 's largest employment services group in September 1987 when it took over US company Manpower .
27 But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely .
28 In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th .
29 The government has managed , by and large , to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992 .
30 Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 .
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