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Example sentences of "[adv] take over a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on .
2	An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites .
3	Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals .
4	For the second day running , up to 30 commuters yesterday took over a carriage on an early-morning service from Colchester to Liverpool Street and put up posters declaring it a smoking zone .
5	When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride .
6	By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system .
7	They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday .
8	If left to reach their natural dimensions , many species will eventually take over a wide area of ground and should be avoided in small gardens .
9	It seems , for example , that the army simply took over a presidential residence-cum-bunker , built in Santiago for General Pinochet .
10	Such continuity was valuable to Gloucester , but it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which he simply took over a ready-made connection .
11	Such continuity was valuable to Gloucester , but it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which he simply took over a ready-made connection .