Example sentences of "[adj] take over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 2 | Even so , with at least two American tournaments lacking name sponsors at the time of writing and the LTA 's anxious search for a company willing to take over the men 's autumn indoor event in Birmingham , are we , I wonder , starting to see the icy blow of reality infiltrating a sport which , for so long , has seemed immune from the impact of any recession ? |
| 3 | In such a situation the purchaser will normally be willing to take over the vendor 's liabilities up to a specified maximum or as specifically itemised in completion accounts . |
| 4 | When Oldham Magistrates granted summonses against Brady and Hindley for the murder of the child following a private application , the Director , having already decided that in all the circumstances it would not be in the public interest to institute proceedings against them , used his statutory powers under Section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to take over the conduct of the case and to discontinue it under Section 23 . |
| 5 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
| 6 | The latter took over the kingship and established himself in power , until he was overthrown by Chlodomer 's brothers , Childebert and Chlothar , ten years later . |
| 7 | In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume . |
| 8 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 9 | A few years later , with Atari in deep financial trouble , Nintendo was able to take over the US market too . |
| 10 | To a great extent eyes are able to take over the function of keeping us upright because we are able to orientate ourselves by seeing our own position in relation to the world around . |
| 11 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 12 | He left school at the age of fourteen to follow the same trade , and two years later in 1835 took over the management of a boat-building yard at Lincoln which his father had acquired . |
| 13 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |
| 14 | The reserve force was established in 1970 to take over the policing functions of the disbanded B Specials and was designed as back-up for the regular force , freeing regulars from lowlevel security work in order to concentrate on both routine policing and high-profile riot policing . |
| 15 | A PLAYERS ' revolt at London Scottish has led to the resignation of the coaching staff and the First XV taking over the coaching in the run-up to the last four league games . |
| 16 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 17 | The UK government , which is due to take over the presidency in the Council in the latter half of 1992 , will set the enforcement of existing Community legislation as a top priority during its presidency . |
| 18 | As established in exploratory talks which took place in January-March 1990 , a major obstacle to the achievement of the EES in the forthcoming negotiations with the EC was EFTA 's demand for equal status with the EC in a joint decision-making body , particularly sought by Switzerland which was due to take over the presidency of EFTA on July 1 . |
| 19 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 20 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 21 | Lynda , a former teacher who has worked as a deaconess in Ayrshire , Edinburgh and Fort William and whose most recent church appointment was a centre warden at Iona Abbey , had been due to take over the lease of Key House , next to Falkland Palace , in July but the property became vacant sooner than expected . |
| 22 | The son of a dentist in Glasgow , he started farming in 1920 at Carneil , Dunfermline , but moved to the Borders in 1948 to take over the tenancy of the 1860-acre farm of Cessford . |
| 23 | Thanx mussed also go to the Mitchley Road Primary Skool printing clubb four taking over the produckshun of owr programe . |
| 24 | Publisher Mr Hamlyn and Westminster City Council have donated around £1 million to take over the Opera House for a week and subsidise tickets for first-time opera and ballet-goers . |
| 25 | POULTON ROYAL took over the leadership of the Wallasey Sunday League second division after recording a splendid 3-2 victory over Harvest . |
| 26 | It needs an understanding of how all the parts contribute to the whole , so that new elements of collaboration can be introduced as and when appropriate , with the children 's confidence and understanding being developed until they are ready to take over the initiative for themselves . |
| 27 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 28 | Changez did n't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores . |
| 29 | The Insurer shall be entitled to take over the conduct in the name of an Insured Person in the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of an Insured Person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings and in the settlement of any claim . |
| 30 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |