Example sentences of "taken over [prep] the [noun] " 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 | He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 18 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 21 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 22 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 27 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 28 | Put simply , it means that your total reprographics facilities are taken over by the experts . |
| 29 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 30 | The castle was taken over by the Hull Brewery Company in 1961 . |