Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 2 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 3 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 4 | SUPERMARKETS have taken over the consumer food role that farmers and market gardeners traditionally played in selling products direct to the public . |
| 5 | The Reptilons plan to take over the Earth , and the bimbos are up for nasty experimental surgery . |
| 6 | In a letter published in ‘ The Times ’ on 2 March the Cardinal said , ‘ Whatever stance individuals make take over the morality of the nuclear deterrent , there must be general agreement on the aim of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states . |
| 7 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
| 8 | Well again since the war and er probably since about the sixties , the garden centres have taken over a lot on that . |
| 9 | Thorns ( 1968 ) , from empirical work in Nottinghamshire , defined three types of village : first , villages with an established pattern of stratification based on the traditional rural economy or squirearchy ; second , villages in a state of transition ; and third , re-established villages where professional newcomers have taken over the dominant roles . |
| 10 | That £150 million will be reduced after the liquidators have handed over the money they expect to recover ( at least £60 mil lion ) and possibly more if other claims are pursued by the DTI . |
| 11 | XYZ Foods have spent over a year researching and developing the product and they are convinced that it will answer a real need in the market . |
| 12 | Students have worked over the last four years with Castle Eden Walkway and Cleveland Wildlife Trust in planting trees throughout Stockton . |
| 13 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |