Example sentences of "taken over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides . |
| 2 | President Zviad Gamsakhurdia announced on Nov. 7 and 12 that Georgia had taken over all equipment and facilities belonging to Soviet Interior Ministry troops and the Soviet army stationed on the republic 's territory . |
| 3 | The Duma defied the Tsar , who suspended them , and formed a government , which they declared to have taken over all power in Russia . |
| 4 | There is some justice in the way Macedon , who had thanklessly insulated Greek culture from these destructive outsiders and nomads for so long , should finally , in the persons of Philip and Alexander , have taken over that culture by diplomacy and conquest . |
| 5 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 6 | The modern DNA machinery , according to this view , is a late-comer , a recent usurper of the role of fundamental replicator , having taken over that role from an earlier and cruder replicator . |
| 7 | Commercial forestry operations have taken over many coppice woodlands and planted conifers extensively . |
| 8 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 9 | One particular factor to be taken into account is the country in which incorporation is deemed to have taken place ; the criteria for this will vary from state to state , so care must be taken over this issue . |
| 10 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 11 | A recommended course for beginners is the RYA Competent Crew Certificate , which can be taken over three sailing weekends ( £110 per weekend ) or a full five-day course ( £215 ) . |
| 12 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Tory backbenchers voiced their concern that speedy action should be taken over juvenile crime when about 25 MPs met Mr Clarke for more than an hour at a private meeting at the Commons . |
| 14 | In Normandy , that part of France which he had made peculiarly his , he had taken over everyday government , now exercised in his name by men appointed by him . |