Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
2 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
3 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
4 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
5 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
6 | He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges . |