Example sentences of "[was/were] taken over by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 2 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 3 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 4 | During the whole of its independent life the railway possessed only 2 locomotives , both Manning Wardle outside cylinder , 0-6-OSTs , named Cleobury and Burwarton , which were taken over by the GWR in 1923 and survived in traffic until the 1950s . |
| 5 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 6 | The Company Gas Works were taken over by the Gas Board in 1955 , and closed completely in 1970 . |
| 7 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 8 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 9 | In the last week of March , the remaining areas of Republican territory in the south and east of the country were taken over by the Nationalists . |
| 10 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 11 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 12 | The paper was taken over by the Shanghai party committee . |
| 13 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 14 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 15 | Three years ago it was taken over by the Queen 's Moat Houses group and new performance disciplines were imposed . |
| 16 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 17 | The running of this line was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in July 1862 . |
| 18 | The rushing sound of the water finally subsided and was taken over by the hiss of the cistern refilling . |
| 19 | On that occasion the site was taken over by the Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory but it was never suitably repaired and racing never returned to Brooklands . |
| 20 | In fact the world-wide Hilton chain was taken over by the Ladbroke Group in a £645 million deal completed in September 1987 ( Ladbroke also owns the Texas Homecare d-i-y store chain ) . |
| 21 | The Beacon Nursery was taken over by the council , as requested by Mencap . |
| 22 | The common belonged to the people until the early 1970s when it was taken over by the council . |
| 23 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 24 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 25 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 26 | The easternmost area of the site covers 144 acres , includes one of the water basins and the locks , and was taken over by the Medway Ports Authority ( ‘ the ports authority ’ ) . |
| 27 | The former Maxwell company was taken over by the management in a £32.5 million deal , agreed with the administrators , Arthur Andersen . |
| 28 | It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906 . |
| 29 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 30 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |