Example sentences of "been taken over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 2 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 3 | The widespread practice of making local , individual and personal bonds had , as we have seen , been taken over into the world of factional politics in the 1540s . |
| 4 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 5 | They will tell you of problems in the area , forthcoming planning proposals , tree preservation orders , which of the drains have been taken over by the Council , road and transport problems , pollution , public rights of way , and so on . |
| 6 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 7 | In April a Sejm-appointed commission investigating the assets of the former PUWP and its allies revealed that some 1,866 of the PUWP 's 1900 buildings had been taken over by the government . |
| 8 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 9 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 10 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 11 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 12 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 13 | On nationalisation this small research staff , under a refugee from Nazi Germany , Paul Schiller , had been taken over by the BEA 's commercial department . |
| 14 | The tasteful domain of the unknown Kettering children , with its bright bedspreads , art reproductions and posters from exhibitions in Florence , had been taken over by the Pargeters , who would soon reduce it to a tip . |
| 15 | Since the 1950s , many of these functions have been taken over by the record producer . |
| 16 | Since 1989 almost 700 S&Ls had been taken over by the RTC . |
| 17 | TAP ( Training Access Points ) systems of user-friendly computer terminals located in libraries , shopping centres , careers offices and businesses — has been taken over by the TEC and is the focal point of a marketing campaign to extend career opportunities . |
| 18 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 19 | The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 . |
| 20 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 21 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |