Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Different companies take over , I remember that time we borrowed that four thousand pound . |
| 7 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 12 | As social services takes over responsibilities for the community care there will be a qualitative difference between social fund officers ’ decisions concerning packages of care if both are controlled by cash-limited budgets . |
| 13 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 14 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 15 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 16 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |
| 17 | New rules to allow private companies to take over the running of key public sector construction projects such as the the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link , London rail links and major bridge and road projects . |
| 18 | As they close in on the prey , they thrust their talons forward and the mighty claws take over . |
| 19 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 20 | As Ardzinba and a group of Abkhaz parliamentarians fled north to Gudauta , the Georgian troops took over major installations in Sukhumi , and Givi Lomanidze , the Abkhazian Interior Minister deposed in June [ see p. 39019 ] , was reinstated . |
| 21 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 22 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 23 | Large companies took over others and thus became more ‘ transnational ’ in operation . |
| 24 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |
| 25 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 26 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 27 | In the close confines of the nucleus powerful forces take over , holding the protons in a tight grip and overcoming the disruptive electrical forces . |
| 28 | The Faculty also offers a range of vocational courses taken over one or two years in subjects such as Architecture ( DipArch ) , Education ( MEd ) , Landscape Architecture ( MLA ) , Nursing Studies ( MSc ) and Social Work ( MSW ) . |
| 29 | Goodwill , which arises where the cost of acquiring subsidiary companies exceeds the net assets taken over , is written off directly to reserves . |
| 30 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |