Example sentences of "taken over [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put simply , it means that your total reprographics facilities are taken over by the experts . |
| 2 | In the last week of March , the remaining areas of Republican territory in the south and east of the country were taken over by the Nationalists . |
| 3 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 4 | It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906 . |
| 5 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 6 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 7 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 8 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 9 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 10 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 11 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 12 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 13 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 14 | This festival was linked in the East with the birth of Mithras and later taken over by the Christians by conveniently moving the birthday of Christ to this date . |
| 15 | Some of these covers were actually odd pieces of common land , old cow-pastures that had been allowed to get out of hand , taken over by the fox-hunters for fencing and preservation , in return for a money payment to the holders of the common rights . |
| 16 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 17 | The convent was in the protection of St Sophia and the church was dedicated to her , but changed its dedication when the building was taken over by the nuns of the Salesiane della Visitazione order . |
| 18 | This place will soon be taken over by the police and I 'll handle them . ’ |
| 19 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 20 | Nursing homes , student residences and preparatory schools of discreet reputation have taken over from the merchants . |