Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] take over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the cafés in the quiet , tree-lined High Street were a little shabby , and the handsome Georgian houses taken over as bank premises , solicitors , offices , and old people 's homes . |
| 2 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 3 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 4 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 5 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 6 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 7 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 8 | He had also appointed professional diplomats to take over from the members of the Soviet Political Consultative Council delegated to negotiate with the Baltic states on issues arising from their independence from the Soviet Union [ see p. 38541 ] . |
| 9 | But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves . |
| 10 | New authorities take over in 1996 . |
| 11 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 12 | Staff working at Hartlepool 's Middleton Grange Shopping Centre have been assured that their jobs will be safe when new owners take over from the borough council . |
| 13 | If the Bill receives the Royal Assent next summer , elections to the new shadow authorities are due to take place in May 1995 with the new councils taking over in April 1996 . |
| 14 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |