Example sentences of "taken over [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 2 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 3 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 4 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 5 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 6 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 7 | Until 1980 , this was the British Country Club ; then it was taken over by the Regional Government and reverted to its original name , being opened as a Public park . |
| 8 | Taking over the isolation hospitals did not appeal , and the clerk of the council said that , in the event of the council 's not being able to find sufficient beds at Ampthill and Biggleswade for non-sick patients , it would be necessary to have a lien on the accommodation at Bedford and Luton institutions when they were taken over by the Regional Board . |
| 9 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 10 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 11 | Union ( which was taken over by the Grand Junction in 1894 ) — that if the canal was to survive , extensive repairs were essential . |
| 12 | The interior of the villa is largely taken over by the Modern Art Museum which is spread through 35 rooms that are still marvels of late eighteenth-century elegance , with luxurious decoration in plaster , parquet floors and chandeliers . |
| 13 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
| 14 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 15 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 16 | This view is not new ; in fact it was put forward by Durkheim and other nineteenth-century writers , but it was often disregarded after the study of crime was taken over by the new discipline of criminology in the early twentieth century . |
| 17 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 18 | Sometimes working-class residents will live on peripheral council housing estates while older ‘ period ’ dwellings are taken over by the middle class . |
| 19 | Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff . |
| 20 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 21 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |
| 22 | Debt-collection became one of the administration 's chief activities , until the balance was taken over by the Native Treasury in 1935 , and finally discharged in 1944 . |
| 23 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 24 | She withdrew because her case has been taken over by the local authority , her solicitor Alistair Babbington said . |
| 25 | You will commonly , of course , advise your client of any facts of interest , which you have discovered by your enquiries ; for example , that the road has not yet been taken over by the local authority , that plans for building on the property were submitted to and rejected by the local authority , etc . |
| 26 | When a road is taken over by the local authority there are usually substantial charges to be paid , but often , in the case of estate roads , the developers have accepted responsibility and entered into a bond with the local authority to secure their liability . |
| 27 | Responsibility for development and inspection was taken over by the Social Work Service and the work of the training council has been absorbed into the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work . |
| 28 | The patriarchate was abolished and ecclesiastical administration taken over by the Holy Synod ( 1721 ) , a department of state headed by a layman . |
| 29 | To boost their works team , the management headhunted a host of England Amateur internationals , giving them factory floor jobs , before Briggs were taken over by the American car giants and their football ground was developed . |
| 30 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |