Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hearts of men , professional duty must take over the place formerly occupied by domestic duty ’ . |
| 2 | With Slough absent , Ealing should take over the leadership when they travel to Ottery St Mary to play Exmouth . |
| 3 | While Mr Kawawa gave many reasons why they should take over the newspaper , he gave no reasons why they did not . |
| 4 | At which point she insisted I knew more ( true enough ) and therefore should take over the project ! |
| 5 | Although each patch would have a back-up long-term hostel , it was intended that the mental health centres should take over the role of caring for most people with longer-term difficulties . |
| 6 | In its most heroic and grandiose form , it proposed no less than this : that working people should take over the industries which employed them and organise those industries into nationwide co-operatives , the whole to be in the charge of one , all-inclusive trade union . |
| 7 | The eldest son of a prosperous producer of soya oil and saki , in Nagoya , the parents of Morita expected that he should take over the control of the family business . |
| 8 | A national health service should take over the provision for medical care in the old insurance scheme and effectively underpin the new one . |
| 9 | Rakovsky suggested that one of his protégés , an able and dedicated counter-espionage officer , should take over the activist case files and plan the Soviet response . |
| 10 | So when did I suggest that Doreen should take over the office ? |
| 11 | The appointment fulfilled a requirement of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties that a Panamanian should take over the post from a US citizen at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 12 | Lini also suggested that the churches should take over the running of a large part of the school system in the interests both of efficiency and economy . |
| 13 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 14 | The Government , he added , should take over the legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds which Robert Maxwell plundered from pension funds instead of leaving professional advisers charging £1m a month to unravel the complexities of the disgraced tycoon 's financial dealings . |
| 15 | There are those who love to confuse the fundamental issue of power by talking about ‘ legal definitions of sovereignty ’ , claiming that because these are outdated , Westminster should hand over the powers which it does have to Brussels . |
| 16 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 17 | On 31 May 1974 , the Supreme Court decided by eight votes to nil that the President must hand over the tapes to the new Special Prosecutor , Leon Jaworski , and in July the House Judiciary Committee voted that the President should be impeached . |
| 18 | If before completion of execution , notice is given to the sheriff or bailiff that a bankruptcy order has been made , the sheriff or bailiff must hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee subject to his costs of execution ( s 346(2) ) . |
| 19 | Scots , in particular , should rejoice over the disbandment of a regiment , praying that at last their sons ' names need not be added to the memorials which stand in every town , village and glen across the country as mute testament to the suffering and sorrow of the past . |
| 20 | ‘ When , some time later , he and I discussed who might take over the responsibility for producing it I rejected the traditional drama types , who did the children 's serials , and said that I wanted somebody , full of vinegar , who 'd be prepared to break rules in doing the show . |
| 21 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 22 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 23 | Now , V D U and eye tests I 'll take over the main primary agenda . |
| 24 | I says , I 'll go next week This was after three weeks , I says , I 'll go on next week and I 'll take over the job of yard foreman , and I 'll do it the way I want it done , not the way that . |
| 25 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 26 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 27 | Foreign labour was cheaper than Libyan , and it was excluded from the benefits of socialist legislation , in particular from the provision that workers could take over the private businesses for which they worked . |
| 28 | Alejandro , fed up with Raimundo 's laziness and his exorbitant whining demands , was put in such a good mood when he saw the black eye that he agreed that Perdita could take over the breaking of little Tero . |
| 29 | He could take over the Ariadne at any moment and you would n't notice the difference . ’ |
| 30 | By November 1948 , it was agreed that they could take over the responsibility for progressing work on the manufacture of plant and on-site construction from the Ministries of Supply and Works , and the following year they did so . |