Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |
| 2 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 3 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 4 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 5 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 6 | Sealink Stena is to take over the Newhaven — Dieppe service and P & 0 hopes to introduce sailings from Portsmouth to Bilbao in 1993 . |
| 7 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
| 8 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 9 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 10 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 11 | The squadron 's Andover planes will go to East Midlands airport where a private firm is to take over the squadron 's duty checking the accuracy of radar and landing systems on all military aircraft . |
| 12 | Corporate development officer Katharine Hardy will be encouraging companies to show their green credentials by joining the Trust , while Phil Sedwill is to take over the ‘ Greening The Tees Corridor ’ scheme as habitat creation project officer . |
| 13 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
| 14 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |
| 15 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 16 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 17 | Nixon 's strategy , in other words , was to take over the bureaucracy while , at the same time , he would take on the congress . |
| 18 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 19 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 20 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 21 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 22 | He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges . |