Example sentences of "[noun] taken over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patriarchate was abolished and ecclesiastical administration taken over by the Holy Synod ( 1721 ) , a department of state headed by a layman . |
| 2 | On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates . |
| 3 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 4 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 5 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 6 | Alfred went to Germany with the Brigade after the war and was stationed at Bielefeld , a German army camp taken over by the British : |
| 7 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 8 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |
| 9 | But this is a partial explanation ; as Urry ( 1981 : 93 ) points out , not all industries taken over by the state are necessarily unprofitable in private hands ; a striking recent example would be the nationalization of some of the leading French banks and industrial conglomerates by the Mitterand government in 1982 ( Durupty 1986a : 77–119 ) . |
| 10 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 11 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |