Example sentences of "take over [prep] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 2 | I hope that this debate will be about the valuable contribution that Britain can make to the European community , rather than a sterile argument about whether the king 's prerogatives will be taken over by the Government and given away in the face of the people . |
| 3 | In April a Sejm-appointed commission investigating the assets of the former PUWP and its allies revealed that some 1,866 of the PUWP 's 1900 buildings had been taken over by the government . |
| 4 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 5 | Similar numbers of people are expected to join YT schemes each year until 1992–3 , but as employers progressively take over from the government , its annual expenditure on YT is expected to fall — to some 760 million in 1992–3 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.5 ) . |