Example sentences of "[adv] taken over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 2 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 3 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 4 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 5 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 6 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 7 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 8 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 9 | Princesse Mathilde , when she and Frederick had originally taken over the château , had been similarly inspired by its location . |
| 10 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |
| 11 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 12 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 13 | Townspeople who form the Loftus Development Trust under the chairmanship of Barbara Welford have now taken over the work of the Civic Trust Project . |
| 14 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 15 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 16 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |
| 17 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , there is a clearly definable move , even in 11–18 schools , to provide the sixth form with its own base — and its own rules — often markedly different from the remainder of the school and in many 11–16 schools , the fifth form have successfully taken over the duties and responsibilities traditionally given to sixth formers , |
| 19 | Maurice Pocock , Head of the School of Business and Social Studies at Ealing College of Technology , who had by then taken over the chair of the Board from W.F. Crick ( ‘ who kind of invented the business studies degree ’ ) , was very concerned that ‘ the degrees should be for business and not about business , that they should be integrated , that the sandwich placement should be fully worked out … ’ |
| 20 | Then taken over the back way , through the back road into the garden in Mouncy Street . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 22 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 23 | The great steps forward taken over the last 30 years have not been undone . |
| 24 | Alston knew his way around and had therefore taken over the navigation . |
| 25 | Minto summoned the man who had recently taken over the Headington practice from the household 's former practitioner , Dr Wood . |
| 26 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 27 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |