Example sentences of "taken over by the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 3 | The castle was taken over by the Hull Brewery Company in 1961 . |
| 4 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 5 | The paper was taken over by the Shanghai party committee . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 11 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 12 | 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 . |