Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] taken over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science fiction has taken over the fantasy-forming role of traditional mythology . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken over the last 12 months to promote the carrying of organ transplant donor cards ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 3 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 4 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 5 | Pride events : Stokesley 's Pride In Our Town Association have taken over the town 's Mayday celebration , part of a series of events to promote and improve Stokesley . |
| 6 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 7 | Golden Wonder have taken over the race sponsorship from Scottish and Newcastle Breweries , who backed the event for the past ten years . |
| 8 | Members of the Earthfirst group have taken over The Willows , near Wymondham , Norfolk , which is in the path of a new five-mile stretch of the A11 Wymondham by-pass . |
| 9 | I would hate to have to tell him that a new type of gentleman has taken over the clubs and boardrooms , a man who does not consider dishonesty the property of the criminal classes and who , moreover , believes that the notion of the gentleman is negotiable . |
| 10 | To cap it all , the Devil has taken over the church and sits impaled on the spire with a long snaky whip sorting out anyone who 's left . |
| 11 | Since the Criminal Law Revision Committee produced its Working Paper , the Crown Prosecution Service has taken over the task of prosecuting from the police . |
| 12 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 13 | In Reggio Calabria , where a government commissioner had taken over the city council following the arrest in July of 25 of its 50 members on corruption charges , a further 22 people including three parliamentary deputies were arrested on Sept. 7 . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , sir , Document B , and I should here direct your attention to Document B1 which is a report of an interview with the girl 's mother submitted on her behalf by the latest Visitor to have taken over the case . |
| 15 | She had come to question him and , as had happened so often , her father had taken over the conversation . |
| 16 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 17 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 18 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 19 | The bank had taken over the shares of the owners of the Art-B company when they were arrested for fraud in August 1991 [ see p. 38399 ] and was said to owe 6,000,000 million zlotys ( $430 million ) to the central bank ( NBP ) . |
| 20 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 21 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 22 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
| 23 | The younger generation had taken over the reins . |
| 24 | The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work . |
| 25 | Welcome to Save The Children in Sutton Coldfield where children from school have taken over the shop for a day . |
| 26 | The England skipper has taken over a club founded by one of his predecessors , Nigel Melville . |
| 27 | Now techno has taken over the city . |
| 28 | The girls from the brothel had taken over a small back room . |
| 29 | By 1785 , Mary Gifford of The Swan Inn across the street had taken over the ownership of Charles 's house . |