Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be taken over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |
| 2 | Around 14 or 15 different concerns were taken over up to 1930 , from Tottenham to Brighton . |
| 3 | Four 15 minute collections were taken over the hour . |
| 4 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 5 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 6 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 7 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 8 | Celebrated German electrical groups were taken over — for example AEG by Daimler-Benz and Grundig by a Philips-led consortium . |
| 9 | We have recommended that the Authority continues to monitor reading standards across the city but that the screening function of its traditional tests be taken over by National Curriculum Assessment at the end of Key Stage One . |
| 10 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 11 | The Commission has proposed that specific decisions be taken over controversial projects such as the introduction of synthetic milk-producing hormones ( such as BST ) . |
| 12 | In the mental health field the work of mental welfare officers with long-term clients was taken over , less successfully in some respects , by CPNs . |
| 13 | Antonio ( whose ministerial duties were taken over by his deputy , Edmundo Carlos Alberto ) was the first member of the government to be held in connection with the plot ; he was also a member of the Frelimo central committee . |
| 14 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 15 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |