Example sentences of "is [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On English Heritage : I must be confident that Jocelyn Stevens [ its director ] is handing over the sites to the right custodians ; I feel that local management could be better . |
| 2 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 3 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
| 4 | The club sacked chief executive Terry Cassidy and the Bank of Scotland is taking over the Celtic ground as a security to cover their £5 m overdraft . |
| 5 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 6 | On an assets purchase , Newco will not acquire any of the vendor 's trading losses or unutilised capital allowances , and they may not be usable by the vendor , for example where Newco is taking over the liabilities which reduce the aggregate value of the target business down to a nominal amount . |
| 7 | The general election is taking over the school . |
| 8 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 9 | Sealink Stena is to take over the Newhaven — Dieppe service and P & 0 hopes to introduce sailings from Portsmouth to Bilbao in 1993 . |
| 10 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
| 11 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 12 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 13 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 14 | The squadron 's Andover planes will go to East Midlands airport where a private firm is to take over the squadron 's duty checking the accuracy of radar and landing systems on all military aircraft . |
| 15 | Corporate development officer Katharine Hardy will be encouraging companies to show their green credentials by joining the Trust , while Phil Sedwill is to take over the ‘ Greening The Tees Corridor ’ scheme as habitat creation project officer . |
| 16 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
| 17 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |