Example sentences of "[to-vb] over [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 2 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 3 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |
| 4 | The Conservative government ultimately appointed a Housing Commissioner to take over responsibility for the housing function but in 1974 the local authority ceased to exist as a result of local government reorganization . |
| 5 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 6 | It is against that background that the DES approach to the CNAA to take over responsibility for the DMS has to be seen . |
| 7 | Discs boss Andy McDonald was forced to take over supervision of the album . |
| 8 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 9 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 10 | Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim . |
| 11 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 12 | This would allow children to take over control of a task , and allow teachers time to work intensively with individuals and groups . |
| 13 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 14 | The Guidance states : no decision to initiate proceedings should be taken without clear evidence that provision of services for the child and his family ( which may include an accommodation placement voluntarily arranged under s20 ) has failed or would be likely to fail to meet the child 's needs adequately and that there is no suitable person prepared to apply to take over care of the child under a residence order ( para 3.10 ) . |
| 15 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 16 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard aim in the medium term to hand over work from the Initiative to an FC/Open consortium . |
| 17 | They would not really want to hand over responsibility to a board of trustees , but would rather retain rights their rights within the museum . |
| 18 | In 1978 , he persuaded the Senate to accept a treaty agreeing to hand over control of the Panama Canal to the state of Panama by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | THIS WEEK Timothy Raison , minister for Overseas Development , will read a report from his civil servants advising him to hand over control of an international conservation treaty to the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | Secondly , and perhaps most important , they have claimed that they do not want to hand over control of an income tax to what they perceive to be extremist Labour local authorities . |
| 21 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 22 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 23 | The United States announced on July 22 that it would not renew a bilateral textile agreement with Myanma in protest at human rights violations and the junta 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD . |
| 24 | The SLORC 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD in May 1990 was harshly criticized by many states , including the United States , Japan and the members of the European Communities . |