Example sentences of "taken over [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the leader 's parent has taken over under the stress of pressure , on the one hand from top management to complete the project and on the other from the follower for promotion , thus breaking up the team . |
| 2 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 3 | The widespread practice of making local , individual and personal bonds had , as we have seen , been taken over into the world of factional politics in the 1540s . |
| 4 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |
| 5 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 6 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 7 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 8 | Social interviews can vary from a candidate being taken over to the pub for a drink and a sandwich , so that future colleagues can see whether or not the newcomer will fit in , to full-scale formal affairs . |
| 9 | A man from the local education authority , after being taken over to the pub by Mr Malik , had announced his intention of sending his own son to the school . |
| 10 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 11 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 12 | The campaign to oppose Maastricht , which had initially fallen into the hands of the Fascist National Front , led by anti-immigrant Jean-Marie Le Pen , was taken over during the summer by two rebels from each of the mainstream parties of the right — Philippe Séguin from the RPR and Philippe de Villier from the UDF . |
| 13 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 14 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 15 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 16 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 17 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 18 | It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university . |
| 19 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 20 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 21 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 22 | They will tell you of problems in the area , forthcoming planning proposals , tree preservation orders , which of the drains have been taken over by the Council , road and transport problems , pollution , public rights of way , and so on . |
| 23 | The Beacon Nursery was taken over by the council , as requested by Mencap . |
| 24 | The common belonged to the people until the early 1970s when it was taken over by the council . |
| 25 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 26 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 27 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 28 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 29 | An RAF base which was due to close down will now be taken over by the Army . |
| 30 | An RAF base which had been due to close next year as part of the Government 's defence cuts is stay open and be taken over by the army . |