Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the cafés in the quiet , tree-lined High Street were a little shabby , and the handsome Georgian houses taken over as bank premises , solicitors , offices , and old people 's homes . |
| 2 | Three to six years later tall herbs take over ; in Sheffield we find rosebay willow-herb , tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) , wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium ) , mugwort ( A. vulgaris ) and occasionally golden rod ( Solidago canadensis ) among others . |
| 3 | Then three to six years later , tall herbs take over ( centre ) . |
| 4 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 5 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 6 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 7 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 8 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 9 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |
| 10 | British Aerospace took over from the Minstry of Defence and the work reduced . |
| 11 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 12 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 13 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 14 | Two French Commandos take over and carry their wounded comrade the remaining part of the way ; he manages a smile as they pick him up . |
| 15 | The old Eve takes over . |
| 16 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 17 | Different companies take over , I remember that time we borrowed that four thousand pound . |
| 18 | The male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them , leaving the hen free to lay again in other nests in her territory . |
| 19 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 20 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 21 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland . |
| 23 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 24 | The plane continued to Krasnoyarsk , where it was refuelled , and then to Tashkent , where a fresh crew took over . |
| 25 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
| 26 | Instead of a see-saw process as different regions take over the running , a vicious circle sets in — a process of cumulative causation — by which the places which initially take the lead generate , by that very fact , all kinds of other advantages which make their position unassailable . |
| 27 | In the past some psychologists have written as if there were a kind of biological , genetically determined ‘ bang ’ at the beginning of human life and that cultural learning took over immediately afterwards . |
| 28 | but , and this kingdom takes over , Jesus was a ransom sacrifice , he brought , bought people back , that 's , those that have faith , so in the new , when this new system comes round , when the king comes round the earth we 'll start to grow young again , and then that way we 'll have a sort of a different flesh wo n't we ? |
| 29 | They also nominated reliable people to take over prefectures and senior posts in the central ministries in Paris . |
| 30 | When he suggested that the European Monetary System was a German racket to take over Europe , he had to go , to the dismay of his biggest fan |