Example sentences of "have been [verb] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 2 | Their grandparents may have been brought over as forced labour when Korea was still a colony , but even descendants born and brought up in Japan are denied civil service jobs and positions with major corporations . |
| 3 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 4 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 5 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 6 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 7 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 8 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 9 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 10 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 11 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 12 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
| 14 | The chief purpose of this repatriation agreement was to ensure that " all Soviet citizens liberated by forces under British command and all British subjects liberated by forces under Soviet command " should " without delay after their tiberation " be separated and properly maintained " until they have been handed over to Soviet or British authority , as the case may be " . |
| 15 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |