Example sentences of "[verb] take over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science fiction has taken over the fantasy-forming role of traditional mythology . |
| 2 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 3 | He is chairman of the authority that has taken over the 16,200 hectare ( 40,000 acre ) site and mayor of Olongapo City , the town that grew up alongside the base . |
| 4 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 5 | The engineering company T-I has taken over the Dowty Group , based in Cheltenham . |
| 6 | In his absence , fellow director Mr Pahdra Singh , well known proprietor of the 8-Day Superette and Pahdra 's Palace take-away , has taken over the day-to-day business of chairman . |
| 7 | Senior Trading Manager Jim Kerr has taken over the inter-bank team while David Peebles , Senior Corporate Manager , has been recruited to head the corporate dealing and business development team . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken over the last 12 months to promote the carrying of organ transplant donor cards ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 9 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 10 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 11 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 13 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 14 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 15 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 16 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 17 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 18 | But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along . |
| 19 | Plants had already seeded in crevices around the foundations , preparing to take over the instant man 's will failed . |
| 20 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 21 | Well , in the cases we 've taken over the odd twenty years against some of the biggest companies in the world indicate that that is n't the er , position . |
| 22 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 23 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 24 | It was announced on May 9 that the government of Byelarus had taken over the former Soviet troops in the Byelorussian Military District . |
| 25 | As Eleanor 's husband Henry II had taken over the old claim of the Dukes of Aquitaine to be lords of Toulouse . |
| 26 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 27 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 28 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 29 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 30 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |