Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 2 | SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland . |
| 3 | They also nominated reliable people to take over prefectures and senior posts in the central ministries in Paris . |
| 4 | When he suggested that the European Monetary System was a German racket to take over Europe , he had to go , to the dismay of his biggest fan |
| 5 | As social services takes over responsibilities for the community care there will be a qualitative difference between social fund officers ’ decisions concerning packages of care if both are controlled by cash-limited budgets . |
| 6 | On Gelon 's death in 478 Hiero took over Syracuse , and another brother called Polyzalus married Gelo 's widow Damareta , who was a daughter of Theron the tyrant of Akragas , cp. above . |
| 7 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 8 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |
| 9 | Large companies took over others and thus became more ‘ transnational ’ in operation . |
| 10 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 12 | British Telecommunications Plc has a £5m five-year contract to take over ownership and management of Thorn EMI Plc 's internal UK telephone network : the contract marked the official launch of its Communications Management Service which designs , implements , operates and manages large business communications facilities for companies wanting to put their UK private networks out to facilities management . |
| 13 | Many women took over men 's duties in the public services , operating railway signals , acting as porters , driving buses and working in the Fire Brigade and the Police . |
| 14 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 15 | Only after the dissolution of the Malaysian Federation , did the Malaysian government take over control of monetary policy and reserve management from the old colonial currency board ( Strange , 1971 ) . |
| 16 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON 'S faltering attempt to take over Manchester United looked in deep trouble last night after Martin Edwards , United 's controlling shareholder , began legal procedings against 37-year-old Knighton for alleged breach of confidentiality . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's my job ’ , is her prompt response to any attempt to take over tasks she wants to do herself . |
| 18 | American Red Cross took over SW London ambulances |
| 19 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
| 20 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |