Example sentences of "taken over by the [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The castle was taken over by the Hull Brewery Company in 1961 . |
| 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 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 9 | The Company Gas Works were taken over by the Gas Board in 1955 , and closed completely in 1970 . |
| 10 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 11 | THREE historic sites in Colchester now run by English Heritage may be taken over by the borough council . |
| 12 | Since the 1950s , many of these functions have been taken over by the record producer . |
| 13 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 14 | The distribution of land , all land under of production confiscate with the exception of those to be nationalized to be taken over by the Peasant Association , the unified |
| 15 | Now , the main lodging house in Ipswich was afterwards taken over by the Salvation Army Hostel . |