Example sentences of "take over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Richard , 60 , who beat a challenge from Belgian Gen Jose Charlier , takes over the three-year post from Norwegian Gen Vigleik Eide . |
| 2 | Stephen Dorrell , 40 , an unimpressive former junior health minister , takes over the Financial Secretary job left vacant when Francis Maude lost his seat last week . |
| 3 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 4 | The leader as always is er is a directive agency , the leader as it were erm takes over the individual self-determination by erm effectively telling telling the good what to do erm how can this er does this have to be in in one direction only I mean one gets the feelings very often you know you see things in the newspaper crowd hysteria and so on , erm do crowds always have to become kind of primitive and regressed or or can leaders influence them in other directions ? |
| 5 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 6 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 7 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans . |
| 8 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 9 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 10 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
| 11 | ABBERLEY : In a part of Greece , a remote part , a man who kills another man takes over the dead man 's wife . |
| 12 | Accept a £12m offer to move Wimbledon north to merge with a League club who would take over the Premier League franchise . |
| 13 | The Government , he added , should take over the legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds which Robert Maxwell plundered from pension funds instead of leaving professional advisers charging £1m a month to unravel the complexities of the disgraced tycoon 's financial dealings . |
| 14 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |
| 15 | BTE Glenrothes will take over the existing subcontract engineering business . |
| 16 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 17 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 18 | Now , V D U and eye tests I 'll take over the main primary agenda . |
| 19 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 20 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 21 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 22 | Richard Nixon took over the Oval Office in January , 1969 . |
| 23 | Smith dismissed speculation he would recruit former Middlesbrough coach David Nish as his right hand man if he took over the hot seat . |
| 24 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 25 | The Macedonian Assembly elected on March 20 a new government led by Nikola Kljusev , while Blaze Ristovski , Jovan Andonov and Bekir Zuta were elected as Deputy Premiers , Risto Damjanovski became Minister of Defence , and Jordan Mjalkov took over the Interior Ministry . |
| 26 | A new team of managers took over the semi-state-owned bank on May 13th . |
| 27 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 28 | A large smile took over the small face of Elmer . |
| 29 | When the trust took over the four-storey building in 1987 it was virtually derelict . |
| 30 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |