Example sentences of "taken over from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturdays , it arrived with a stylish colour magazine , taken over from the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 2 | During the first half of the 1970s all three of the most heavily urbanized regions ( South-East , North-West , West Midlands ) had population growth below the national rate , suggesting that the urban-rural dichotomy had taken over from the north-south divide as the main feature of UK population change . |
| 3 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 4 | Nursing homes , student residences and preparatory schools of discreet reputation have taken over from the merchants . |
| 5 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 7 | It has taken over from the Appeal committee the task of raising money to support the teaching of Law in Somerville . |
| 8 | Industrial parks now stand where pepper plantations used to be , modern buses have taken over from the rickshaw and Singaporeans now live in high-rise apartments rather than the traditional kampongs . |
| 9 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 10 | The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend . |
| 11 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 12 | Darkness has descended and the mosquitoes have taken over from the enemy mortars . |