Example sentences of "which take over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete the game you need to photograph all 16 inventions , each of which takes over 20 shots ! |
| 2 | The Manpower Services Commission was itself dissolved in 1985 and was replaced by a body which took over most of its functions , called the Training Commission . |
| 3 | This improved matters at first , but green algae was followed by the dreaded brown patches , which took over most of the tank . |
| 4 | The original Strasbourg clock probably contained , besides moving figures , an annual-calendar dial , and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe , but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts , both fixed and movable , and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun , moon , and planets , including even the motions of the nodes of the moon 's orbit , which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic . |
| 5 | That power enables the Secretary of State to intervene in the private sector and , in a sense , to discriminate against one particular group of private sector companies those which take over one of the STG subsidiaries . |