Example sentences of "to take over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should you be disconnected for a debt owed by a previously registered consumer , but you must have made proper arrangements with the fuel boards to take over the supply . |
| 2 | Whether the government , which is collecting the money from the sale of the villas , was hoping Prince Sihanouk would come back , or whether no one dared to take over the house , Mr Sok Hay would not say . |
| 3 | Since BAe seems to be a front-runner to take over the ailing Ferranti group , Professor Smith may have a hand in self-fulfilment of his prophecy . |
| 4 | The 500,000 acres of water authority land , much of it in national parks and areas of outstanding beauty , was ‘ a massive inducement ’ to the City to take over the industry . |
| 5 | In Manchester , there was open speculation that Bobby Charlton , probably the most famous player in United 's history and also a director , was being lined up to take over the chairmanship after a Midani bid . |
| 6 | Tass news agency said hundreds of wagons rolled in to the southern Soviet republic bordering Turkey , three days after the Soviet parliament authorised the army to take over the railways . |
| 7 | The Soviet parliament approved special measures allowing the military to take over the railways to get supplies through , but the army held off , apparently reluctant to trigger fresh protests . |
| 8 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 9 | The reserve force was established in 1970 to take over the policing functions of the disbanded B Specials and was designed as back-up for the regular force , freeing regulars from lowlevel security work in order to concentrate on both routine policing and high-profile riot policing . |
| 10 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
| 11 | The death of Kenyatta in 1978 , with no constitutional change accomplished , left the way open for Daniel Arap Moi to take over the presidency and to be confirmed in a national election as president within three months . |
| 12 | In retrospect , it appears that Senghor 's strategy was first to reconfirm that his party and its policies continued to have support from the Senegalese people , by giving them real alternatives , and then to enable a young and clearly competent successor to take over the leadership of both the party and the government . |
| 13 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 14 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 15 | MR BOB Reid , head of Shell UK , yesterday agreed to take over the chairmanship of British Rail under a deal that will bring him £2 million over five years . |
| 16 | What his mate , who has never bothered much with politics , discovers about our police on the one hand and lawyers on the other , forces him to take over the activist role in this tough political thriller . |
| 17 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 18 | A few years later , with Atari in deep financial trouble , Nintendo was able to take over the US market too . |
| 19 | Opposition MPs mocked the Government 's decision to take over the Student Loans Company as its first act of nationalisation . |
| 20 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 21 | The church and the French diplomatic authorities have asked the federal police to take over the investigations , but the state police have already arrested two men and accused them of the crime . |
| 22 | AS the Irish Prime Minister , Mr Charles Haughey , prepares to take over the presidency of the European Economic Community on Monday , promoting his country is high on the agenda . |
| 23 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 24 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 25 | Instead , he wanted to meet his final challenge , to take over the West Indies captaincy from Lloyd and continue their triumphal march through the record books . |
| 26 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 27 | There was the estate agent 's clerk , Jack Cotton , whose property developments in Birmingham made him big enough , in partnership with Clore , to take over the Ritz and Selfridges , to put up the $100 million Pan-Am office building in New York and to threaten to present Piccadilly Circus with a hideous skyscraper of advertising signs , while he contemplated his Rembrandt at the Dorchester . |
| 28 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 29 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 30 | And beware of those who want to take over the organiser 's job . |