Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] taken over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride events : Stokesley 's Pride In Our Town Association have taken over the town 's Mayday celebration , part of a series of events to promote and improve Stokesley . |
| 2 | Golden Wonder have taken over the race sponsorship from Scottish and Newcastle Breweries , who backed the event for the past ten years . |
| 3 | SUPERMARKETS have taken over the consumer food role that farmers and market gardeners traditionally played in selling products direct to the public . |
| 4 | Members of the Earthfirst group have taken over The Willows , near Wymondham , Norfolk , which is in the path of a new five-mile stretch of the A11 Wymondham by-pass . |
| 5 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
| 6 | CCG have taken over the Spinneys division of Airwork Ltd , as well as the onshore interests of Universal Ogden . |
| 7 | Federman sees the postmodern period as one in which the media have taken over the informational role of fiction , drastically reducing its status . |
| 8 | Thorns ( 1968 ) , from empirical work in Nottinghamshire , defined three types of village : first , villages with an established pattern of stratification based on the traditional rural economy or squirearchy ; second , villages in a state of transition ; and third , re-established villages where professional newcomers have taken over the dominant roles . |
| 9 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 10 | Welcome to Save The Children in Sutton Coldfield where children from school have taken over the shop for a day . |
| 11 | If the Hindus and Sikhs of Punjab have taken over the concept of Izzat from the Muslims , the Muslims and Sikhs have adopted the dowry system from the Hindus . |
| 12 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |