Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] to take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 2 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 3 | Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born businessman and United director who has a 15 per cent stake , seems to be in the strongest position to take over if Knighton 's bid falls through . |
| 4 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 5 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
| 6 | The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over . |
| 7 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 8 | So 1968/69 loomed and Reg Pybus seemed the natural choice to take over as manager . |
| 9 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 10 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 11 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 12 | Hoover , himself , certainly not a callous man , considered that it would be fatal for the Federal government to take over in the field of relief , which was properly the concern of state and local governments with help from private charity . |
| 13 | The church and the French diplomatic authorities have asked the federal police to take over the investigations , but the state police have already arrested two men and accused them of the crime . |
| 14 | Lindsey signalled to the other girl to take over . |
| 15 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , when he was deported back to Russia for spying the CIA suggested Bailey as a possible replacement to take over as the Colonel 's number two . |
| 17 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 18 | When he suggested that the European Monetary System was a German racket to take over Europe , he had to go , to the dismay of his biggest fan |
| 19 | OSF is now believed to be looking for a commercial partner to take over and productise the technology , which is much-needed within the industry . |
| 20 | Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) . |
| 21 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 22 | If Dalglish ever left , Toshack would be a powerful candidate to take over . |
| 23 | Weslo Housing Management — a new organisation set up by local Scottish Homes management and staff — have lodged a rival bid to take over all the housing stock in the district . |
| 24 | He will then be in a good position to take over much of the rest of the property when his parents die . |
| 25 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 26 | If the purchaser is setting up a new company to take over the business of the vendor , since that new company will have no track record , the landlord may well be entitled to look for additional security , such as a parent company or bank guarantee or a rent deposit . |
| 27 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 28 | The industry 's expansion is the result of the IDA 's efforts to create a new industry to take over from the ailing assembly , light manufacturing , and textile industries that started Ireland 's industrialisation in the early 1950s . |
| 29 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 30 | Five years on from the original 1988 Wagner Report , the group made ten recommendations for the future beginning with the establishment of a new body to take over the group 's function . |